{"id":1283,"date":"2022-10-03T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:15:44","slug":"dusun-traditional-beliefs-and-taboos-to-add-values-to-rural-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Dusun traditional beliefs and taboos to add values to rural visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SabahLibrary-1024x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1280\" class=\"wp-image-1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SabahLibrary-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SabahLibrary-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SabahLibrary-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SabahLibrary.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Anna (2nd, right) depositing the latest book at Sabah State Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Journalist-turned-book writer Anna Vivienne has authored three books based on the accounts of Dusun beliefs and Taboos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a journalism experience spanning 33 years, she switched into the foray of writing books in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She launched her first book, titled &#8220;Strange Magic and Supernatural Encounters&#8221; followed by &#8220;Hauntings and Ghostly Whispers&#8221; in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1281\" class=\"wp-image-1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-1536x692.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AnnaVivienne-2048x923.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Anna (centre) gifting copies of the book to friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the latest in Sept 2022 was &#8220;Scary Tales and Uncanny Encounters&#8221; which was deposited at the Sabah State Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the stories in the books were handed down to her orally by her paternal grandmother who was a bobolian (spiritual medium) and her mother who was a novice before she embraced Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These books are very useful for the homestays, kampungstays and farmstays rural tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Tourists who explore the rural areas might also interested to know about our cultural and traditional background,&#8221; said Anna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, she believes all her books can be incorporated as part of the rural tourism in the areas of storytelling to entertain the tourists.-HS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Journalist-turned-book writer Anna Vivienne has authored three books based on the accounts of Dusun beliefs and Taboos. With a journalism experience spanning 33 years, she switched into the foray of writing books in 2019. She launched her first book, titled &#8220;Strange Magic and Supernatural Encounters&#8221; followed by &#8220;Hauntings and Ghostly Whispers&#8221; in 2021&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Annabook-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}