Show victim for each building the belief illustrated in the ballad of the bridge of arta that a human victim Is required to insure the stability of 0 A a bridge or building survives in greece today J A laisiu law sou says there Is no murder now it suffices to obtain preferably from an enemy or an old person a hair nail paling shred of clothing old shoe or a thread or stick marked with the persons height or footprint measure and bury thebe beneath benea tir the foundation stone the victim dies within a year but the building Is sate safe even a shadow will ill do sir mr lawson was himself dragged back by a friend in santorini Santori nl so that his shadow might not fall across such a fatal spot and the mayor ot told him that his four predecessors had bad all died from lettering thear shadows fall on foundation stones laid by them |