But the word _lobo_ also signifies 'to leak.' If a person says a sentence containing the word _lobo_ in either signification before a member of the clan while he is eating, he will throw away the food before him as if it were contaminated and prepare a meal afresh.

Here it is clear that the Korku pays no regard to the sense but solely to the word or sound.

This belief in the concrete force of words has had the most important effects both in law and religion.

The earliest codes of law were held to be commands of the god and claimed obedience on this ground.

The binding force of the law rested in the words and not in the sense because the words were held to be those of the god and to partake of his divine nature.