The term taboos has to do with lawful prohibitions of certain contacts
that may defy the cultural standard of
the people many taboos are associated with
kola nuts, among the people of Izzi.
For instance, kola nuts threes found around inhabited houses are termed
sacrilegious and will be uprooted and transferred to another site.
According to Nwali Eze (fortune- teller
from Ishieke Igbudu, in Izzisouth, who was interviewed “ females are strictly
warned not to climb kola nuts trees”
Again kola nuts which has remained for several years in bareness are
often given matchet cuts around the trunk or branch of it many be cuts off. The
people of Izzi traditionally believe that it will reduce
the infertility rate and increase
the yielding rate in the subsequent year.
Other
taboos associated with kola nuts is that women should not fetch fire wood from dried branches of kola nuts
trees, more over, women should not be presented with kola nuts in the presence
of men expect in their single
gathering. A visitor if her husband or brother is at home. In
most places, kola nut should not be presented in the night to avoid misunderstanding. Before
presenting kola, nut, the presenter
should touch it what his lips in the
absence of any man, let is the eldest woman
that will bless and share the
kola nuts. Kola nuts should not be blessed and shared by grand son or grand daughter or in-law in same place
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