The boxer was afraid that after we left he might roll a rock down our trail because of our breaking his taboo.

"The chiefs and arikis or priests have the power of declaring a place or object taboo.

He began living simply and automatically; he adopted various "taboos" which to him were omens of bad luck, and certain charms, incantations and the like, which made him immune from ill-fortune.

When they travelled they were carried on the backs of men; but the king journeyed in a litter supported on shafts.[10] Among the Ibo people about Awka, in Southern Nigeria, the priest of the Earth has to observe many taboos; for example, he may not see a corpse, and if he meets one on the road he must hide his eyes with his wristlet.

The governor now got Ooroony to assemble his priests and chiefs, and to pronounce a taboo on all intercourse with the whites for one year.

Moses framed in the mountains the ten taboos of Israel, which we hold as sacred as did the chosen people.

Slowly men embodied their "taboos," their incantations, their habits and customs into religions and statutes.