Note 106 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS
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“The word genna is used in two ways: (1) it may mean practically a holiday—i.e., a man will say, ‘My village is doing genna to-day,’ by which he means that, owing either to the occurrence of a village festival or some such unusual occurrence ... his people are observing a holiday; (2) genna means anything forbidden” (A. W. Davis, in Census of India, 1891, Assam, i, 249).