Their storehouses are generally placed upon poles, a few feet from the ground, andtabooed or consecrated.
Ulu kapu a Kane, the breadfruit tabooed for Kane, p.
The priests of the olden time are said to have held that the tabooed fruits of these trees were in some manner connected with the trouble and death of Kumuhonua and Lalahonua, the first man and the first woman.
In the olden time certain varieties of fish were tabooed and could not be caught at all times, being subject to the kapu of Ku-ula, the fish god, who propagated the finny tribes of Hawaiian waters.
And thus wailing and crying out, and tearing her hair, she ran back over the bluffs, and down the shore to the tabooed ground of Kealia, and wailing ever, flung herself at the feet of Kamehameha.
In olden times it was tabooed to females to appear at any eating-place of the males.
He has also given the fullest and most original explanation of the reason why, granting that groups of early men had each a special regard for a particular animal or plant, whose name they bore, they tabooed marriage within that name.
He is supposed to have tabooed all the women of the clan, reserving them for himself.
Beyond all reasonable doubt, the infatuated man had set foot on the shores of the tabooed island.
One of the boats was lowered into the water--under command of the second mate, who had already taken the bearings of the tabooed island by daylight.
The Captain had acted on a similar impulse, when he took the first canoe he had found on the beach, and shaped his reckless course for the tabooed island.
She said Adelaide was made ill because she had offended the spirits by bathing in the creek under the shade of a Minggah, or spirit-tree, a place tabooed to all but wirreenuns, or such as hold communion with spirits.
They would at once change their camp; the old one would be gummarl--a tabooed place; but before they left it they would burn smoke fires there to scare away the spirits.
A tabooed camp has always a marked tree--just a piece of bark cut off and some red markings made on the wood, which indicate that the place is gummarl.
In Scotland the pig was a demon as in ancient Egypt, and pork was tabooedover wide areas.
My own friends had been among the bitterest opponents of any proposal to visit the Captain and his daughters, only twelve months before; and now he was even admitted in the tabooed hours before twelve.
Conscientiously this delightful old man kept us off tabooed walks and shunted us into permissible places.
Remarking to her that Captain Wood Martin kept his grounds locked up very carefully; enquired what should happen if we drew ashore and landed on his tabooed domain.
Do you not know that this island will be tabooed to seamen for some time to come?
The Hook and the Five Points are two pieces of tabooed territory within the limits of the good town of Manhattan, that are getting to be renowned for their rascality and orgies.
I would undergo a similar punishment, I was told on other occasions, for using such tabooed words as crocodile and salt; it was believed that a storm would be the result of the use of these words.
Talking is almost tabooed during such a race, since every breath lost in useless conversation saps so much energy.
M5 Sacred or tabooed persons apparently thought to be charged with a mysterious virtue like a fluid, which will run to waste or explode if it touches the ground.
Among the numerous things tabooed to the taime are bears, skunks, rabbits, and looking-glasses, none of which must be permitted to come near the sacred image or be touched by the taime keeper.
And then to think that the ground thus tabooed by one particular member may be all Sutherlandshire, or, still worse, all Westminster!
God made it; but I have acquired it andtabooed it.
The South-Hollman feud had been mentioned by the more talkative of his informers, and carefully tabooed by others--notable among them his host of last night.
The influx of "illegal" Jews into this tabooed region was checked by measures of extraordinary severity.
In this manner the way was opened for big Jewish capital to enter the two Russian capitals and the tabooed interior.
They followed Paganel, and when the savages saw them profaning anew the tabooed burial place, they renewed their fire and their fearful yells, the one as loud as the other.
There were other dresses and hats too, for morning and afternoon, and even more extravagant dessous than those Jennings had tabooed in London.
Jim tabooed the idea of a hotel, but thought of Mrs. Winter, as most of her acquaintances did think of her when they wanted practical advice or help.
To speak more accurately the interdict only extends to open cultivation and the tabooed area is ploughed and worked in secret.
A 'Tabooed Kanaka' is an islander whose person has been made to a certain extent sacred by the operation of a singular custom hereafter to be explained.
I now remembered the Kanaka had frequently told me that his person was tabooed in all the valleys of the island, and the sight of him at such a moment as this filled my heart with a tumult of delight.
Before sun-rise the next day, Jimmy and the Typee started in two of the ship's boats, which were manned by tabooed natives.
But a European girl who would have endured allusions to tabooed subjects would have at all times shown vulgarity or coarseness, while these Russian Romany girls were invariably lady-like.
In order, however, to give additional security, the crater was tabooed to all the Kannakas; not one of whom was permitted ever to enter it, or even to go near it.
They had heard of the 'canoe' that had been tabooedfor twelve moons, but were at a loss to comprehend one-half of the story, and were left to the most anxious conjectures.
A variety of other articles, almost as tempting, though not perhaps of the same intrinsic value, lay also in sight, but were tabooed by the magic of powder and balls.
