Genre Ranking
Get the APP HOT

Chapter 37 FIRST-FRUITS AND TABOOS

* * *

Taboo is one of the few savage words which have struck root in England. Introduced from New Zealand (tapu) and other Polynesian islands, it is used in English to denote a prohibition. This, that, or the other thing, or person, or book is 'tabooed.' Many of the Ten Commandments are, in this sense, taboos. But, in anthropological language, '

Previous
            
Next
            
Download Book

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022