Virtually every town or villages in Nigeria has one taboo or the other. Anyone who violates these taboos goes through a huge punishment. There is a village called Igede-Ekiti, headquarters of Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State that happened to not be an exception to this rule. The ancestor of the town, Ake and his wife, Erindo, migrated from Ile-Ife. The patriarch, according to Oba Aladelusi, had 16 children who grew up to become very powerful. After his death, the power struggle over who would ascend the throne led to a serious crisis, to the extent that they resorted to …