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John J. Poggie, Jr., Richard B. Pollnac, Carl Gersuny, Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 257-262
Poggie et al. (Wed,) studied this question.