Taboo on rulers


Taboos regarding rulers includes both taboos on people coming into contact with a ruler and the taboos regarding the ruler themselves.

Examples

attributes the existence of such taboos to an unconscious current of hostility toward the king/ruler. In the following example the hostility toward the ruler is more obviously shown:
But even in such glaring instances, however, the hostility is not admitted as such, but masquerades as a ceremonial.