Note 104 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

Some, if not all, of the Igorot peoples of northern Luzon are familiar with the idea of taboo as applied to individuals or to families at certain critical times. The Ibaloi Igorot equivalent of taboo is pidiu. A man, while in the peculiarly solemn condition of pidiu, “must not bathe, must not admit visitors into his house, and must not work, travel, etc.,” under penalty of punishment by the making, or departed souls, for transgression of the regulations (O. Scheerer, “The Nabaloi Dialect,” Ethnological Survey Publications, Manila, 1905, ii, 167). But these prohibitions do not seem to be socialized.