taboo-ridden

Updated: August 28, 2024

He had been contrasting these hideous slaveries of taboo-ridden England, past or present, with the rational freedom of his own dear country, whither he hoped so soon with good luck to take her, when suddenly Frida raised her eager eyes from the ground, and saw somebody or something coming across the moor from eastward in their direction. All at once, a vague foreboding of evil possessed her.

Grant Allen - The British Barbarians

Fervid belief, moreover, produced by long tradition, acts powerfully on the imagination, and in taboo-ridden communities thus often brings about the bodily ill called for by the theory: a man who ate of food that he found on the roadside, learning afterwards that it belonged to a chief, fell ill and died in a few hours.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV