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Aye-aye art that appeared in an issue of Discover Magazine on March 1st, 2018.
The home page for the aye-aye folklore can be found here.
Aye-aye art that appeared in an issue of Discover Magazine on March 1st, 2018.
Title: Tripcest
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“One of the biggest taboos about trips is tripcest, and so that is when any trippees or trip leaders have sexual relations with each other during the process of trips, and that’s kind of carried over after. I would still feel really weird, and a lot of people do too, committing tripcest now. Although, some beautiful relationships do flourish from it. On Lodj Croo where tripcest mostly comes into play is during the dance party after dinner. Sometimes trippees get too close to each other, so we try and facilitate breaking that up. One of my favorite techniques that I’ve heard of is farting between two of the people so that they all separate. One of the stories that made me really upset, I found out that tripcest had been committed in one of the port-a-potties two years ago when I was on Lodj Croo.”
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Collector’s Name: Roshni Chandwani
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Customary Folklore, Superstition, Taboo