2007-09-28 18:46:19 · 8 answers · asked by Green 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Probably the same "reasoning" regarding burying wizards (i.e. Merlin) at the foundation of a castle...just plain superstition...blood of the innocent, second sight, purity and so on... pure balderdash, like most religion since then!
2007-09-28 18:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pray tell which bridges?
I suppose that if such a thing really happened, which I'm not entirely certain did, that one might assume that the virgin would have been an offering to some god to help insure that the bridge would stand.
Then again, people of old were smarter than we typically give them credit for, and they would have likely understood that a body would decay, leaving voids in the foundaion, making it LESS stable.
2007-09-29 01:56:25 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know of the Vestal Virgins in Roman pagan practice who would stop at bridges and throw flowers, but burying? If they lost their virginity while serving in their capacity they were buried alive. But that is not really burying a virgin, is it?
2007-09-29 02:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by sympleesymple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so the bridge would be tight...im sorry that was unnecessary......couldnt help myself.
2007-09-29 01:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Agnostic Rockett 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huh?
2007-09-29 01:51:17 · answer #5 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you mean britches or bridges ?
2007-09-29 02:21:21 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
women as objects...not human beings...
easy to do crap like this to someone you consider to be an object...
2007-09-29 01:58:23 · answer #7 · answered by chieko 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm afraid to ask... but where the hell are you from?
2007-09-29 01:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by Lyndsey G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋