TABOOS ASSOCIATED WITH KOLA NUTS IN IZZI - NIGERIA

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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