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teddy2t:
Still selling

kablooee: Driving pass this useless truck, a stone flew from it and hit my rear glass really hard I hard to pull over to check.

SkyLinkss: All bill inclusive in the 2.m execpt for my service charge.. sure you can run the VIN before making payment. Not all the seller ave facilities to do that for you but we can make do the checking of the car history and come back to make paymet for the car we select to buy. But I can assure you that you will be buying a good car.

Regards

Jennydoris: Scary Taboo especially Numbers 4 and 7 . Then No 9, seriously that dog is a demon .

You don't call the snake by it's name at night, lest....

You don't stand with ur two feet on a kernel stone. If you do you became a dwarf.

You don't have traditional wedding on 'Eke' market days.

It's a taboo for a woman to die on an "Eke" day.

you don't look thru ur legs in the street else you see spirits.

You don't look in the mirror at night lest you see ghosts.

You don't start a morning kitchen fire without removing the previous days ash or someone will get catarrh.

ABEG MAKE I GO CHECK MY INDOMIE FOR STOVE


And outsider does not pluck/harvest the first fruit of a tree.








Here are the Taboos and consequences in Igbo Land.


ADULTERY; When a married woman commits
adultery,she is likely to run mad and the husband is
liable to die if he eats her meal knowingly.When a
married man commits adultery,he is likely to have a
set-back in his business. (I heard this from an Arochukwu woman, Arochukwu is in Abia State)

TEENAGE PREGNANCY; This happens when a young
girl gets pregnant outside wedlock. It hinders the
young woman's ability to get married and when she
eventually gets married, she is either married as a
second or third wife OR married to an old dying Man though some of them are still lucky to get married to a young man that has not married before.

MARRIAGE BLESSINGS; If one gets married without
consulting his/her parents for blessing, problems
such as Barreness,divorce or death are bound to
occur while the man's business may wreck.
(except for orphans mind you)

HAVING intimate RELATIONSHIP WITH SIBLINGS;
This is considered as the Highest taboo,the
consequences are Epilepsy,blindness, being deaf
and dumb,poverty or even death might occur.

KILLING/EATING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS; Some parts
in Ala Igbo consider the killing of Python, monkey,
Cats, Alligator, Vulture, Bats as taboo. This might
attract a fine from the victim. Consequences are
Poverty and Death.

OSU; This is another highly respected tradition. An
Osu is someone who is considered an outcast
because he/she is owned by the gods, as a
result,no one is expected to have any dealings with
an osu in terms of marriage or business. Women
Osu are known to remain unmarried till the rest of
their life or marry late or marry a man who is also an OSU. While male osu are known to
be poor. (I don't know how true this is because I know many OSU men that are very very rich, I mean very rich).

USE OF LEFT HAND; you shouldn't eat,write,Give or
receive with your left hand. This is considered an
act of disrespect and highly frowned at. It has no
Consequences but it's better you write or eat with left hand but not to give or accept with the left hand. It shows sign of disrespect especially if you're dealing with an elderly person.


NB: some of these listed taboos have been obliterated especially with the emergence of Christianity and education.

Surplus90: experiencing the same thing here in Onitsha...scans,goes off,tries to rescan,goes off again, finally scans then suddenly trips off...three days and counting...I noticed mine since I obliged with dia recent software update three days ago