An ancient religious cult, which may have originally been small, became influential in Scotland, and the taboo spread even after its original significance was forgotten.
Proprietors of alien origin and monks ate pork, but the old taboo persisted.
As the devil is called in Scottish Gaelic the "Big Black Pig" and in Wales is associated with the "Black Sow of All Hallows", it may be that the Welsh had once their pig taboo too.
For instance, some people from the island visiting the Discovery, after the taboo was removed, went off with several articles they had stolen, whereupon the ship opened fire on the fugitives, and a chief on shore was killed.
Kamehamea was about to abolish the taboo system when he died in 1819, and was succeeded by his son Liholiho, who took the name of Kamehamea the Second.
Puyallup Indians, taboo on the names of the dead among the, iii.
Pantang, taboo among the Jakuns and Binuas of the Malay Peninsula and the Dyaks of Borneo, iii.
Imerina, in Madagascar, taboo on name of crocodile in, iii.
Quatzow, village of Mecklenburg, taboo on names of animals at, iii.
Malagasy language caused by taboo on names of the dead, iii.
Timor, the civil rajah and the fetish or taboo rajah, iii.
Goat's flesh, tabooas to entering a sanctuary after eating, viii.
Historical tradition hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, iii.
Kaonohiokala," replied Kahalaomapuana, "the high taboo one of Kaeloikamalama and Mokukelekahiki.
Then Waka entered with Kapukaihaoa the taboo place where Laielohelohe was hidden; Waka waited and the priest went still farther into the place and brought her to Waka, then Waka knelt before Laielohelohe and did her reverence.
Said Kahalaomapuana, "The child of Mokuekelekahiki, of Kaeloikamalama, of the magicians who guard the taboo house on the borders of Tahiti.
Pamano studies the art of the hula, and becomes a famous dancer, then comes to the uplands of Mokulau in Kaupo, where the king adopts him, but places a taboo between him and his daughter, Keaka.
And because of his fine speeches we agreed upon this, and for this reason, I have lived apart under a taboo until now.
Now you wait here; let me call the bird guardian of you two, who will bear us to the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti.
Marquesas for the priesthood are strictly bound to a taboo of chastity.
But Aiwohikupua would not believe it taboo because of having heard that his sisters had the guardian power.
On the high seat of the double canoe in which the chief sailed was set up a canopied couch covered with feather capes, and right above the couch the taboo signs of a chief, and below the sacred symbols sat Aiwohikupua.
After passing the fourth taboo sign, they approached at a distance the fifth sign; this was Kahalaomapuana's.
When they turned back and came to Kahalaomapuana's taboo sign, behold!
Here she bathes in the taboo pool and plucks the taboo flowers.
If a taboo is violated during this time the transgression becomes attached to the soul of the deceased.
The attachment seems to have a different appearance, according to the taboo that has been violated.
If, during the three days that the soul stays with the body, any taboo or prescribed custom is violated, the violation becomes attached to the animal's soul.
That taboo against Ullerans and Terrans watching each other eat and drink," Murillo said.
Paula seemed as much surprised at Kankad's disregard for the eating taboo as she had been at von Schlichten's open flouting of the convention of concealment when he had put in his geek-speaker.
This breakdown of the Jeels' taboo against eating fellow-tribesmen was one of the best things he'd heard from the cannibal-extermination project for some time.
THE SEX-TABOO In the course of the last few chapters I have spoken more than once of the solidarity and continuity of Christianity, in its essential doctrines, with the Pagan rites.
There was this advantage in the Christian taboo of sex that by discouraging the physical and sensual side of love it did for the time being allow the spiritual side to come forward.
It is out of this taboo or system of taboos that, according to Reinach, religion arose.
A taboo on promiscuity had to be created, and for this purpose any current prejudice could be made use of.
For a tracing of this taboo from useless superstition to practical utility see Hastings's Encycl.
As Reinach and others suggest, it was the Taboo (bred by Fear) which by first forbidding contact with the totem-animal or priest or magician-chief gradually invested him with Awe and Divinity.
Somehow under the sex-taboo they became spiritualized and etherealized out of all human use.
Here the innate potency of the superior man expels or destroys the taboo force that has entered the inferior--another example of how the primitive theory of taboo is modified by conceptions of social rank and authority.
Thus we can, in many cases, see where ordinary civil law comes in to adopt, modify, or set aside taboo rules, and so we can generally recognize the line of demarcation between definite taboo and the conception of association of ideas.
A general taboo regulation may be set aside by tribal agreement in the interests of convenience or pleasure.
Though there is no proof of the existence of all-pervading taboo systems among the peoples of Asia and America, there are notices of taboo regulations in particular cases in these regions.
One of the most remarkable episodes in the history of taboo is its complete overthrow in the Hawaiian Islands in the year 1819 by a popular movement.
The greatest development oftaboo power in chiefs occurs in Polynesia, the home of taboo.
The relation of taboo to morality and religion and to the general organization of society appears from the facts stated above.
The principal taboousages may be classed roughly under certain heads, which, however, will sometimes overlap one another.
Frazer, Early History of the Kingship; Marett, "Is Taboo a Negative Magic?
In so far as it supplies a supernatural sanction for moral conduct proper and maintains rational social relations (as when a man's wife and other property are made taboo to all but himself), it is often beneficent.
During planting time in New Zealand all persons employed in the work were taboo for other occupations and obliged to give all their time to the planting; and the same rule held for hunting and fishing.
The beasts adopted by the cults were taboo and there was an absolute injunction against their slaughter.
It was also the only non-taboo meat-bearing animal on the planet.
The capricious operations of the taboo are not its least remarkable feature: to enumerate them all would be impossible.
It was not long before Kory-Kory and myself were left alone in the house, the rest of its inmates having departed for the Taboo Groves.
The merciless prohibitions of the taboo extended likewise to this edifice, and were enforced by the same dreadful penalty that secured the hoolah hoolah ground from the imaginary pollution of a woman’s presence.
All the inmates of the house, with the exception of Marheyo, his son, and Tinor, after assuming their gala dresses, departed in the direction of the Taboo Groves.
How many yards he would have to remove from Jimmy before the taboo would be powerless, it would be hard to tell, but probably he himself knew to a fraction.
All that day the drums resounded, the priests chanted, and the multitude feasted and roared till sunset, when the throng dispersed, and the Taboo Groves were again abandoned to quiet and repose.
The sign of the inscrutable Taboo was seen, in the shape of a mystic roll of white tappa, suspended by a twisted cord of the same material from the top of a slight pole planted within the enclosure.
Mr. Frazer also finds the usual totemic taboo among the Yuchi, a tribe of the Gulf nations.
They are imposed for many known and some unknown reasons, and not all totem kins taboo the totem object.
They did not depend only upon the taboo of the trade road for their safety, for the Beakermen were master bowmen.
They inhabit a bit of mountainous territory southeast of here, a stretch strictly taboo for all hunters.
He broke with the clan hunters when they turned aside at the beginning of the taboo land.
A taboo is not meant to be understood; it is only meant to be obeyed.
As already stated, the seventh day was taboo because it was supposed to be accursed.
The word taboohas come into the modern language from the Polynesian, and it means forbidden.
And yet there is a fundamental difference between a thing which is forbidden in the English sense of that word, and a thing which is taboo in the sense which primitive races attached to that word.
While many interesting reasons could be suggested, the truth is that, like the majority of religious rites and dogmas, both taboo and totem are impenetrable mysteries.
Among the primitive races a thing wastaboo either because it was supposed to be "unholy" or because it was supposed to be "holy.
Yet the one, as much as the other, is as taboo as ever.
Before answering that, let us look at a few other examples, oftaboo in the Old Testament.
The conventional taboo against Sex Knowledge, which is inherited by the race from the Middle Ages.
The gourd called churakhai, palmyra fruit, and palmyra jaggery aretaboo to the Nambutiri at all times.
As the chewing of betel is taboo except in the married state, this function is believed to attest and seal their irrefragable mutual fidelity.
To discuss name taboo in all its aspects would lead us more deeply into magic and comparative folk-lore than we have yet gone, and such discussion is unnecessary here.
Breaking of a royal or hero taboo not only affects the violator, but his subjects or followers as well: in some cases the king seems to suffer vicariously for his people.
After a while, home-sickness seizes the adventurers and they come to a unanimous decision to return to Ireland; but they depart under a taboo not to set foot on earth, or at least not till holy water has been sprinkled on them.
And almost always such a taboois bound up with animistic and magical elements, which seem to form its background, just as it is in our own evidence.
In the latter case, a certain anthropomorphosing of the power behind the taboo would seem to be involved.
It was a taboo of mine for those Three to go before me--the three Reds to the house of Red.
Besides many other miscellaneous taboos noticeable in the evidence, there is a place taboo which is prominent.
Almost every great Gaelic hero--a god or Great Fairy Being incarnate--is overshadowed with an impending fate, which only the strictest observance of taboo can avoid.
This, of course, is the taboo over again, only sufficiently ashamed of itself to resort to subterfuge.
Mourners are taboo all the world over; accordingly in mourning the Ainos wear peculiar caps in order that the sun may not shine upon their heads.
Whatever, in fact, is permeated by the mysterious virtue of taboo may need to be isolated from earth and heaven.
The tradition that Croesus would allow no iron weapon to come near Atys suggests that a similar taboo may have been imposed on the Phrygian priests named Attis.
For taboos of this sort seeTaboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
Where the common practice prevailed of naming a father after his son (Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
For another mode in which these same Dyaks seek to heal sickness by means of an image, see Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
According to the latter writers, any breach of a clan taboo among the Omahas was supposed to be punished either by the breaking out of sores or white spots on the body of the offender or by his hair turning white.
Thus the Aino kamui appears to mean nearly the same as the Dacotan wakan, as to which see Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, p.
As to the custom of going with one foot bare and the other shod, see Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
However, the motive which underlies the taboo appears to be a fear of injuring by sympathetic magic the cows from which the milk is drawn.
On iron as a charm against spirits, see Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
As to the divine chief Tooitonga seeTaboo and the Perils of the Soul, p.
On wine as the blood of a god, seeTaboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
For more details seeTaboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
Esquimaux after the slaughter of sea-beasts, see Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp.
Having got drunk, he quitted it during taboo time, and entered the house of a woman.
They are not allowed to attend the morai upon taboo days, nor at these times are they permitted to go out in a canoe.
Tamaahmaah was most attentive in performing the duties of religion, and constantly attended the morai on the taboo days, which took place about four times each month.
I can assure you," said Aurelle, "that his taboo is still effective.
The King's taboo has also disappeared," said the doctor.
The taboo is fixed for the most part upon any public recognition of sex, while privately, interest in matters of sex is taken for granted.
At present there is a powerful taboo in most country places regarding any constructive attempt to give helpful sex information, although, as a matter of practice, conversation often gravitates toward sex in a most unwholesome fashion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taboo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
