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I don't like your taboo's


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Taboos?  Allegedly, there was an English missionary in the 1800's who served a tribe around an African lake where it was taboo to eat fish and they believed it or spirits would kill them if they did so.

The missionary returned to England and sent one of the young men from the tribe to an English college.

After a couple years of college, the young man was having dinner at the missionary's home.  The missionary said, "Now that you're getting an English education, you must realize that the taboo about fish is nonsense."

"Oh no," the young man replied, "If I eat fish it will kill me!"

The missionary laughed and said, "I've played a trick on you. The chicken you've been eating isn't really chicken: it's fish."

The young man fell over dead.

I doubt it's true but it's a good story!

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