Two cherokee hunters were in the forest one evening, hunting. And each of them was under a taboo.
Sometimes, individual Cherokee took on temporary taboos, to cleanse their spirit, or because they knew, from communicating with the spirit world, that the taboo was important. Some taboos were general. Some were particular to a certain person. But one thing was certain, they were not to be broken.
One of the two hunters in the forest that evening wasn’t supposed to eat deer meat. The other hunter wasn’t supposed to eat squirrel meat. They had both been warned.

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