Millard County Chronicle | 1913-01-16 | Page 8 | Victim for Each Building.

- Victim for tach uildlng. The belief. HUmirnt --I In the ballad of "The Krldire of Ana." that a human victim la required to Insure the stability sta-bility of a brldfe' or building survives In Greece todny. J A I .as son says. fTbere I f.o minder now. It suffices to obtain, prefer b'y from an eneroy or an old person, a ha'r, nsll paring, shred of clothing, old rhoe cr a thread or stick marked wiih the persona height or footprint measure, and bury these beneath the foundation atone. The victim dies within a year, but the building ta ssfe. Kvea a shadow will do. Mr Law-eon Law-eon waa himself drarged back by friend In Santortnl so that his shadow might not fall across such a fatal , spot; and the mavcr cf Agrlnlan told him that bis four predecessors bad . all died from lettering their shadows fall on foundation eumrs laid by them.