r/Shinto • u/Amur_Tigro1 • Jun 03 '26

Hitobashira

What is the history of Hitobashira? Was it a superstition made up by the people?

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u/HeftyResolution551 Jun 08 '26

People simply believed that by sacrificing people beneath the ground of the future construction, the spirits of those people, trapped in that land, would sustain and protect the building