Avunculicide

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Avunculicide is the act of killing an uncle. The term is derived from the Latin words avunculus meaning "maternal uncle" and caedere meaning "to cut or kill".

Contents 1 Avunculicide in history 2 Avunculicide in fiction 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Avunculicide in history

• In 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew, Faisal bin Musa'id.
• In 2001 Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed his uncle Dhirendra during the Nepalese royal massacre.

[edit] Avunculicide in fiction

• Hamlet kills his uncle, King Claudius.
• In Vladimir Nabokov's 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave Franz intends to murder his uncle; the narrator tells us that later on he will be "guilty of worse sins than avunculicide".
• Louis Mazzini commits avunculicide in the 1949 movie Kind Hearts and Coronets (imbd).
• The 1996 movie Let's Kill Uncle (imbd) is a horror movie where the evil uncle is to be killed in self-defense.

[edit] See also

• -cide
• Kill Uncle, by Morrissey

[edit] References