Taboos

Birth

• Mother cannot eat buffalo meat or she will age quickly.
• She may not wash her hair for a month. If she washes her hair before that, it may cause her to be mentally impaired when she is older. 
• Do not cut her fingernails, the wind may come into her body and make her sick.

Pregnancy

• Not allowed to wander outside for the children born would be ill with skin diseases or walk away from home.
• Must not ridicule any animals or handicapped person, the baby may be born to such traits.
• Must not step over the rope to which a buffalo is tied as the birth of the baby will be delayed to ten or eleven months.

Death

• No one must do any kind of work on the day of the funeral (eg: planting rice). It brings misfortune. 
• While the body is still in the house, all occupants must stay awake. Whoever fall asleep will be doused with water. The purpose of keeping awake is to watch out for the devil (a large bird will try to fly away with the body). 
• Prevent a cat from jumping over the outstretched corpse, if this happens the dead man will be transformed into a dangerous and terrifying giant.

Marriage

• Cannot cancel engagement. If not, the one who cancel it need to pay all or half amount that have been discussed.
• Before the bride and groom are allowed step into the house, the host family man / woman singing or "SelakohanSinding". ‘SelakohanSinding’ is welcoming new bride.
•  Anything that related to engagement must be settled during morning time. Not during evening and night.
• Engagement date is fixed by the agreement of both parties. The days are not in the odd number of odd and in a good month