Note 70 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

“At certain seasons of the moon, just before and just after the full, the [Sea] Dyaks do not work at their farms; and what with bad omens, sounds, signs, adverse dreams, and deaths, two-thirds of their time is not spent in farm labour” (Charles Brooke, Ten Years in Sarawak, London, 1866, i, 149).