Forbidden acts

Usage examples of taboos.

I forget every minute that YOU do not recognise the essential identity of your own taboos and poojahs and fetiches with the similar and often indistinguishable taboos and poojahs and fetiches of savages generally.

Your taboos, I foresee, will prove a most valuable and illustrative study.

England, you must remember, is a civilised country, and taboos are institutions that belong to the lowest and most degraded savages.

The only thing that puzzled him was how Philip Christy, an Englishman born, and evidently a most devout observer of the manifold taboos and juggernauts of his country, should actually deny their very existence.

West End taboos, though not in some cases so distressing as the East End ones, were at times much more curiously illustrative and ridiculous.

How can it belong to him and also to the fellow who taboos the particular piece of ground it was snared on?

Indeed, most of our nomologists at home believe that all taboos originally arose out of ancestral ghost-worship, and sprang from the craven fear of dead kings or dead relatives.

She was glad of the diversion, for she liked Bertram immensely, and she could not help noticing how hopelessly he had been floundering all that afternoon right into the very midst of what he himself would have called their taboos and joss-business.

You surround life with taboos, and then--you talk despairingly of the problems with which your own taboos alone have saddled you.

Long and intimately as he had lived among the various devotees of divine taboos the whole world over, it was with difficulty still he could recall, each time, each particular restriction of the various systems.

All taboos are the same in origin and spirit, whether savage or civilised, eastern or western.

To me, from the very first, they seemed absolutely the same as the similar taboos of Central Africans and South Sea Islanders.

Sometimes, as in ancient Rome, Egypt, Central Africa, and England, the whole of life gets enveloped at last in a perfect mist and labyrinth of taboos, a cobweb of conventions.

She stood unmoving, beautiful, proud, angry, and Damon inwardly cursed the superstitious taboos she had been taught.

But one of the strongest sexual taboos on Darkover was that which separated the generations.