 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1865 - 466 pages
...would not pass under a stage or wata (a food store). The head of the chief was the most sacred part; if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged...thus restore it to the part from whence it was taken. Par the same reason a chief could not blow the fire with his mouth, for the breath being sacred communicated... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...carried anything on it, and to touch it was an offence.1 The head of a Maori chief was so sacred that "if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged...restore it to the part from whence it was taken."' In some circumstances the tabooed person is forbidden to touch his head at all. Thus in North America,... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - Religion - 1896 - 460 pages
...Arabians of old might not wash or anoint the head ; and the head of a Maori chief was so sacred that " if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged...restore it to the part from whence it was taken." 4 As tabooed persons render everything taboo with which they come in contact, so holy places make everything... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 510 pages
...grossest insults, only to be wiped out with blood."4 So sacred was the head of a Maori chief that " if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged...restore it to the part from whence it was taken." 8 On account of the sacredness of his head a Maori chief " could not blow the fire with his mouth,... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - Anthropology - 1902 - 538 pages
...peoples, the Siamese and the Maoris, for instance ; if a Maori touched his head he had to put his fingers to his nose " and snuff up the sanctity which they...by the touch, and thus restore it to the part from which it was taken." Also he could not blow the fire, for his breath being sacred communicated sanctity... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - Religion - 1905 - 360 pages
...Malays and Siamese regard the head as sacred. If a Maori touched his head, he had to put his fingers to his nose "and snuff up the sanctity which they...by the touch, and thus restore it to the part from which it was taken." He could not blow the fire, for his breath communicated sanctity.8 Various parts... | |
 | Ethnology - 1916 - 744 pages
...andere getaboeëerden ; daaruit emaneert magie. Het hoofdhaar van een Maori-hoofd was zóó magisch, dat «if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged...restore it to the part from whence it was taken». Taylor, gec. bij Frazer, Taboo 256. Vooral lange, loshangende haren verspreiden magische energie. Aan... | |
 | Daniel Clarence Holtom - Japan - 1922 - 412 pages
...— to touch a man's head was a gross insult. If a chief touched his own head with his fingers he had immediately to apply them to his nose and snuff up the sanctity which they had abstracted from his head. The cutting of a chief's hair was a solemn ceremony — the several locks... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - Ethnology - 1927 - 490 pages
...any chance be on deck above their heads. Taylor in Te Ika a Maui, in the chapter on Tapu, says : " The head of the chief was the most sacred part of...by the touch and thus restore it to the part from which it was taken ; for the same reason a chief could not blow the fire with his mouth ; for the breath,... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - Sociology - 1927 - 894 pages
...body; if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged immediately to apply them to his nose, snuff up the sanctity which they had acquired by the...chief could not blow the fire with his mouth, for 1" Bastian, Dent. Exped.. I, 197, 198, note, 200, 216. "2 Ritter, Asien, I, 144. «a Junker, Afrika,... | |
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The head of the chief was the most sacred part of the body ; if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged immediately to apply them to his nose and snuff up the sanctity which they had acquired by the touch and thus restore it to the part from... 
