The rule on Constabulary interference seemed to be that while individuals had an unquestionable right to shoot out their differences among themselves any fighting likely to endanger nonparticipants was taboo - Last Enemy by Henry Beam Piper

A peculiarity about the Lynngam and the Khasis and Mikirs of the low hills or Bhois as they are called is that they reckon it sang or taboo to use the sickle - The Khasis by P. R. T. Gurdon

47 The chiefs and arikis or priests have the power of declaring a place or object taboo - The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown