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Show "Blooding" a Building A strange pagan belief still exists ex-ists In England, In the superstition that any new building will be unsafe un-safe or unlucky unless human or animal an-imal blood be spilt on it before completion. com-pletion. Not long ago a workman work-man fell from the top of Stratford-on-Avon's lofty new Shakespeare theater, and was killed, whereupon one of his fellow-workmen remarked: re-marked: "That will save blooding the new building." Being questioned, he explained that if no one met with an accident, shedding blood during the erection, It was customary custom-ary to kill some small animal od the site to ensure the building's future fu-ture safety. o |