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  • voldemort
    • wizards v. dursleys
  • the power of words, Edgar Allen Poe
  • Percy Jackson
    • names have power
  • Office: beach day
    • h.w.m.n.b.n.
  • house of night
    • true names are powerful
  • Pocahontas (the person, not movie)
    • The 18th century historian William Stith claimed that "the 'Indians' carefully concealed [her real name] from the 'English', and changed it to Pocahontas, out of a superstitious Fear, lest they, by the knowledge of her true Name, should be enabled to do her some hurt."
  • Regina Spektor, Better
    • if you never say your name out loud to anyone, they can never ever call you by it.
  • Metric, Rock Me Now
    • his value declined when he offered his name.
  • Buffy Season 8 #5
  • Doctor Who 3.03
    • I named her. That's old magic, the power of names.
  • "a poem about my rights," june jordan
    • My name is my own, my own, my own
  • "remain nameless," florence + the machine
  • angel (fred)
    • he called me sweetheart, but it's just an expression, isn't it? like when a waitress calls you honey. it doesn't mean you're special of anything. it's just a word, right? 'sweetheart.'
  • Enuma Elish (Babylonian Epic of Creation)
    • they were not named, they were not yet fated with fates
    • zakaru = to speak; to name; to call into existence; to give purpose
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