a prohibition that is still much respected is the prohibition fa, "die." This fa is the conditional curse of a dying person which will be fulfilled in case of a specific event, in this case if a member of his family marries a girl from another specified family. [A curse of this kind is carried from generation to generation, and the elders attempt to break up the practice.]2

2Gutmann, B.n/an/an/an/an/a, "Die Frau bei den Wadschagga," , 92: 30.