Note 164 — Chapter II · TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS

Dudley Kidd, The Essential Kafir, London, 1904, p. 253; Farewell, in W. F. W. Owen, Narrative of Voyages to explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar, London, 1833, ii, 397. A Kafir chief, on succeeding to power, is said to have declared a taboo of all field work for an entire year and to have put to death every woman who became pregnant during this period (Globus, 1889, lvi, 62).