TABOO
Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 15
a word in use among the in- | of be babitants of the South Sea Islands, when | Char speaking of anything which is either sacred | inclu or accursed, and must not be touched. | Wor’ The word is used as the name, both of the| TA thing consecrated and the act of con-| maus Sec ration. Thus the body of a chief is | Shah taboo; in other words, the tribesmen are/| of ¢ forbidden to touch it ‘under any circum-, marb stances. stone [s. 294]
Readham'da tam maddeyi gor →