Show WHY COINS ARE PUT UNDER FOUNDATION STONES very terrible in its sinister stin cance is the custom of putting coins under the foundation stone of a building about to be erected for theae pieces of gold and silver and bronze are alic latter day equivalents of the human beings that once have been immolated immo ther arid there immured they constitute tho ransom for blood that by rights should be shed but U not this latter terrible use wa at ODO time well nigh and traces of it survive almost everywhere in many parts of europe for instance when the hole h dug to receive hiis tiis bame foundation stone the rn anaona aona will erinice 0 o the spot some stranger then while one engages him in conversation another will creep behind and measure hi shadow the measuring stick being afterwards buried and mortar stamped down on top of it or they prepare a tiny coffin inside which Is a doll for use in the same way or tude images of babies in swaddling clothes are similarly immured and in not a few out of the way parti of the world whose inhabitants aland psychically about where we did twenty contu drifts rifts ao the original custori still prevails in all its primitive hider only last year at in taft caucasus three builders beje arre led for and murdering a lad whose body they afterward built into ahe foundations of a tower they were erecting in 1863 two children a boy and a girl were similarly consigned to a aping iping rave by some corking vor king on u at duga in luikey at copenhagen a wait sank as fast as t n built 0 o they took an innocent little girl and set her at a table with toyn and sweeties then she layce a nd ate twelve maiter masons loaded he vault over her A horais that was being built at acu ari became ciaky lia ky A liae man advice was sought decreed eliat the defect increase a haiman victim were wilted into the foundation 50 the three brot liers who bete vf at it agreed amon to immolate and lai llant of hadr wives who camo to alic place arf lying hem food Simil alf might be i from every foni on the face of the atou excluding our own in 1835 rhex Hola worthy church in devonshire was being restored a skeleton with a mass of mortar plastered over the mouth was found im in an ichie of the building that the castle of liebenstein might stand impregnable a child was bought for hard cash of ita peasant mother and walled into the donjon tower I 1 A roll was given the little one to cat while the were at work and the unnatural parent stood by to quiet H in case it cried out mother I 1 child laughed when van see you hie the wall was breast aih mother I 1 atiee a little of you eull then mother I 1 gee nothing of you I 1 now in the museum at algiers is a plaster cast of the mould left by the body of one geronimo who was built into a block of concrete in the angle of the fort in the sixteenth century candles too are frequently utilized A lighted candle is everywhere the symbol of life just as an extinguished one reversed i ot death in the chancel wall of bridgerule erule church a half consumed tallow dip was found immured in a secret recess another waa discovered a few years back built into one of the buttresses ot st lsytha priory in essex when old bridge built in was pulled down in 1807 there were found within a vault like cavity beneath tho second arch from the gilr rey side two such candles together with i number of bones and a horse head this latter h vt y it is 0 the horse of the death god woden to whom all these propitiatory sacrifices nera made frequently iii days gone by hoists heads were built into churchea indeed several of them can be sean to thi very day gruesomely protruding from anion the masonry of the parish church of in north umbel land yet another custom bearint closely on this same conid rile is that which de thiet a henf of corn shall lip fastened to the abac of n build ins i constantly done by ahn j workmen in all puts of anit c in davon darf il i l auk it a 1 i will tell 1 ou it h u fur ti bad but m reality lias A fm il canca it is intended af a feed for that selfsame pale harge chose rider else would take too swift and too heavy toll of the future inmates or again on certain gothje buildings can ba geen what architects call hip nob that i bunches of flowers or corn imitated in tone wood or clay the builder ays chis is for ornament merely knowing no better but it is deeply and fearfully as the reader can plainly ase for himself by this cimei IP many parts of england the brick la jer when they hav their work and et on pots fix a on top of the scaffold pole in some the bush has been superseded by flap ask t foreman chy is and he will tell you that it i because the fineu have their boband expect a drink to celebrate the occasion and no doubt chy it i dop do p now but their forefathers did it PS offering to woden horse and the d was a solemn libation to the horses rider even now a portion of the first pot ot beer ia spilt upon the ground thua we get the hag from tho bush the bush from the sacrificial sheaf and tie sheaf froal the human victim the proverb baya there is a skeleton in every house the proverb was once literally true the custom crops up everywhere 11 over england are human skulls prea erv ed in niches and corners of old fann houses terrible things we are invariably told will happen to the incata if the grisly relics are taken away and buried another variation i the child ghost that haunts go many old manor houses the usual legend is that the victim was buried under the hearth la the hall and a cruel uncle i dragged into the story to account for tho crime but the avuncular murder ia a myth of later creation the choice of the bur IP tell ui that for upon the hearth were the earlier expiatory vie hinr sacrificed aal beneath ibbey mu interred then the hearth was also tie liter the most sacred portion of ahe dwelli to this day we speak of hi of a mans hearth tha ingrain carpet weavers philadelphia PA ha voted to atay ehrike until the geurt ill dc manda there as a rent tn coront i orm a labor federation for canidi H a largely supported by french caius ans in eastern canada and has the tup port of the roman catholic church b cause the battor leaders in that part H willing to submit to the of th hierarchy which the american canadian unions are wt W dined to do |