Taboo

Taboo	Because they believe…
Women do not eat rice from the pot	Child-birth will be difficult.
Women do not cross over the chopping block.	Child-birth will be difficult.
Do not cross over brooms.	Child-birth will be difficult.
Do not leave pestles in mortars.	Child-birth will be difficult.
Do not mix men and women’s laundry	This will dishonour the man who is the head of the household.
Do not prate when they enter the forest.	They will not have luck catching animals that day.
Do not hit children with brooms.	The child will become weak and unwise.
Children do not eat chicken heads.	The child will argue with his parents.
Children do not eat chicken gizzard	The child will grow stubborn.
Children do not eat chicken heart.	the child will grow lazy.
Children do not eat chicken bottom.	The child will have shiver.
Children do not eat chicken legs.	The child will wander off.

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