4. Hitobashira was a practice in Japan that involved burying a living person at the foot or in the walls of a building to ensure its successful construction.
Usually, they were volunteers, often samurai who willingly became the new guardians of temples.
5. In fact, it was common practice all over the world. From mentions in the Old Testament to discoveries in India, there are buildings and bridges in the walls and structures of which the bodies of women, men, and children can be found.
For example, there was a legend surrounding the medieval German castle of Nieder Manderscheid, claiming a young maiden was buried within the walls. When the wall of the castle was broken into in 1844, a skeleton was embedded in it.
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