The power of the real name was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort = Lich?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 60354

:
> Red Inkstone wrote
> >
> > At the same time, the idea that learning the true name of a being
> > confers power over it is hardly unique to the lich--it's the 
reason
> > Moses isn't let in on the secret of the Divine Name, but is told 
to
> > make do with the substitute moniker "I Am Who I Am" (=Yahweh) as
> > the "name" of the Deity who is talking to him.
 
(Izaskun)
> Well, don't forget Rumpelstiltskin.

I might add something that comes from Finnish folk tradition. One did 
not speak the true name of a powerful being, lest he invited it (and 
this practice gave birth to synonyms) - in Potter-books, this is 
shown in the manner the wizards say you-know-who instead of 
Voldemort, and how a basilisk's name (according to FB) truly DOES 
this. (So, Hermione could NOT say it was a basilisk!)

However, knowing the "birth" of something gives some sort the power 
over it. The sorcerer would then threaten to call upon the thing's 
parents/ancestors...

erm- perhaps as the basilisk, being of rooster's egg, hatched by a 
toad substitute to voice of a rooster(which is why possessed!Ginny 
killed them all). However, this tradition would call upon TOADS being 
able to fight effectively against basilisks on the virtue of being 
toads! Dear Trevor is a FINE being!

-- Finwitch