Superstitious Fears

Mirosława CHUDA

John Paul II Institute, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Poland



Abstract

A feuilleton on fear-based superstitions in modern life, focusing on selected, correctness inspired linguistic trends to replace words such as ‘die’ and ‘death’ in everyday speech in Polish with their synonyms which do not directly refer to the fact of dying.





Published
2014-12-30


CHUDA, M. (2014). Lęk zabobonny. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 27(4), 293–295. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ethos/article/view/19852

Mirosława CHUDA 
John Paul II Institute, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin



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