Börü (Türk) (Göktürkçe)

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Ancient Turks believed they had to crush the feared object or creature and erase any resemblance of its name from memory. Instead of referring to the evil entity as "börü", they called it "kurt", a word that, ironically, now commonly means a ground-dwelling, worm-like animal in modern Turkish. The reason for this substitution was likely to avoid invoking malevolent spirits that might harm villages and towns. May God Protect and Exalt the Turk...