Consiquences of tradition

We Africans like observing our traditions keenly.Anybody who break any is considered unclean.There was a ritual of harvesting that when the harvest was ready it was to be started by the head of the clan to taste and bless the harvest that is in descending order.
It was a time when the harvest was ready and nobody has touched his harvest.People waited for the elder to open for them.And one day a family in the clan had nothing to take for the day,they have begged for many times until they werent able to pay back.They had the harvest but feared to touch.They consulted the elder and told them that if they attempt to touch and it will be a taboo,so they stayed like that.Then the youngest son stood and said,he is ready to die of taboo not hunger and take some&live.

Location: kondele, Kisumu, Kenya