[TUHS] In some cults...

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 2025, at 16:00, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> > ... it is possible to kill a person if you know his true name.
> >
> > I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
> > V5 or thereabouts?
>
> Here’s a stackexchange page about it.
>
> https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1724/where-did-the-idea-of-a-true-name-come-from

Meta note: I think Dave meant a quote in a comment in Unix somewhere,
not the origin of the True Name myth.  :-)

        - Dan C.