They that made of the world that smoky mist of magic were elves, and they did so because Conaire's tabus had been violated.
The tabus and ceremonies surrounding it clearly indicate its religious origin.
A "wise woman" of Bureitu had treated her for leprosy, and she had observed tabus on and off for some years.
This was the last heiau destroyed when the ancient tabus and ceremonial rites were overthrown by the chiefs just before the coming of Christian missionaries.
The overthrow of idolatry and the destruction of the system of tabus came in 1819, when most of the wooden gods were burned or thrown into ponds and rivers, but a few were concealed by their caretakers.
Men began to tell stories about themselves, about the tribe, about its tabus and why they had to be, about the world and the why for the world.
By talking together men would reinforce each other's fears, and establish a common tradition of tabus of things forbidden and of things unclean.
With every development of speech it became possible to intensify and develop the tradition of tabus and restraints and ceremonies.
The simple individual fancies, the unsystematic fetish tricks and fundamental tabus of Palæolithic man began to be handed on and made into a more consistent system.
There the tabus were first broken, there the missionaries first received; and but for the new use of ships and the new need of harbours, here might be still the chief city and the organs of the kingdom.
But the missionary was a man of parts; he wrote a deep impression on his hearer's mind, and after he had left for home, Kamehameha called his chief priest, and announced he was about to break the tabus and to change his faith.
The party of the priest prevailed; the King's men were dragged in a body into the opposite temple; and the tabus were maintained.
The men cook, and eat apart from the women during this time, and the food tabus are strictly enforced.
She had told him more than once about the healing art possessed by old Tabus on the Owl's Nest.
They learn also the prohibitions and tabus by being constantly checked; a sharp word generally suffices to secure obedience.
The tabus of the latter class are observed by the husband even more strictly, if possible, than by the wife.
From the moment of leaving the village the men of the war-party must observe many tabusuntil their return home.
Take her my curse, and let her know that her friends would be my foes, and her foes should find in Tabus a benefactress!
She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you.
During this outburst the light of the fire, which old Tabus had fed with fresh straw and dry rushes, fell upon the face of the agitated girl.
Ledscha had no cause to be ashamed of her frequent visits to the Owl's Nest, for old Tabus had no equal as a leech and a prophetess, and the corsair family, of which she was the female head, stood in high repute among the Biamites.
What she had to confide to Tabus was intended for her alone, and experience taught how far spoken words could be heard at night over the water.
Tabus in surprise, letting her gaze rest inquiringly upon the girl.
She had uttered the last words in a hoarse cry, butTabus answered soothingly: "Hush, child, hush!
Tabus must have learned through them how deeply I offended her son Satabus, and how greatly his son Hanno's life was darkened through me.
Then Tabus struggled into a little more erect posture, and asked: "What does this mean?
For her murdered grandson's sake the girl's confession that she had given her heart to a Greek affected her painfully; but Tabus also had something else on her mind for her beautiful darling.
Tabus shrugged her shoulders, and the smile of satisfaction which flitted over her brown, wrinkled face showed that the news was welcome.
Tabus indignantly, but the girl exclaimed, in a tone of sincere shame: "You do well to call me that.
Old Tabus exchanged a swift glance with her son, and Satabus said: "He is his own master.
Tabus fell as if struck by lightning when she heard the tidings, and since that time her tongue had lost its power of fluent speech, her ear its sharpness; but Ledscha did not leave her side, and saved her life by tireless, faithful nursing.
Tabus are one important instrument of the enforcement of social checks upon individual action; "tabus are perhaps not so much a means for enforcing custom as they are themselves customs invested with peculiar and awful sanction.
As well as the growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie’s interminable list of tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather gaining, his authority before he could be of any assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or himself.
In Australia, everything that can be eaten is eaten by all the natives of a given area, each kindred having only a tendency to spare its own totem, while certain other tabus on foods exist.
These tabus do not amount to absolute avoidance, but they do amount to very marked restrictions; for example, on eating together, or sleeping under the same roof, even where husbands and wives are concerned.
To keep them apart all sorts oftabus and avoidances are invented, including the tabu on their marriage.
But it cannot have been so in the beginning, or the totem and phratry tabus on marriage would have had no occasion to exist.
Under the system of universal kinship, all the customs and all the tabus of all the planets were the law on all the other planets.
How would you like it if a Theemimian violated one of our tabus in public?
For a year prior to his leaving the Lodge, he had carefully studied the customs andtabus of the Universe so that he should be able to enter the new life he planned for himself, with confidence and ease.
On the other hand, as all tribal lore was once in the hands of the wise woman, such tabus and legends may have arisen when men began to claim such lore.
Legends telling of the danger of removing or altering a well, or of the well moving elsewhere because a woman washed her hands in it, point to oldtabus concerning wells.
Geasa, whether in the sense of tabus or of obligations, could be imposed by any one, and must be obeyed, for disobedience produced disastrous effects.
The meaning of these is obscure, but other examples are more obvious and show that all alike corresponded to the tabus applying to kings in primitive societies, who are often magicians, priests, or even divine representatives.
This is a true Elysian note, and the tabued door of the story is also suggestive of the tabus of Elysium, which when broken rob men of happiness.
Kings were not likely to give these up, and where they retained them priests would be content with seeing that the tabus and ritual and the slaying of the mock king were duly observed.
They must therefore be careful of their actions, and hence they are hedged about with tabus which, however unmeaning, have a direct connection with their powers.
During the time the halau was building the tabus and rules that regulated conduct were enforced with the utmost strictness.
Such tabus and substitutions of names are authenticated in other cases among savages.
Durkheim charges me (Folk Lore, December 1903) with treating these tabus "vaguely" in Social Origins.
But, if the primal groups were not exogamous, they would become so, as soon as totemic myths and tabus were developed out of the animal, vegetable, and other names of small local groups.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tabus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
