Children's heads for foundation of bridges and buildings...
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I guess many have heard this before..
In the 70s and 80s of Singapore, many children were lost and never found. The reason of the sudden disappearence that most people believed was that the children were killed and their heads were added into the foundation of bridges and buildings...
The collector of children heads was rumoured to be the "Kepala Anjing", a dog headed human bodied creature. MAny people claimed to have the Kepala Anjing walking around in HDB corridors, apparently looking for children..
That was also one of the reasons parents lock up their doors at night and do not allow their children to wander around after dark.
Remember the collapse of Hotel New World in the 80s?
It was said that there were no or not enought children heads in the foundation. -
Like that are, a lot of children will be missing liao... we have so many buildings.
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Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Like that are, a lot of children will be missing liao... we have so many buildings.
From what I have heard, this is how this Urban Legend came abt..
Renovation or demolition work on some buildings and bridges have revealed tiny human skulls...too small to be adult human skulls..
Plus, at that time, many children were lost and never found...leading to the story that children were being captured and beheaded for the sole purpose of adding their heads into the foundation of the building..
Why children? Because children are the purest form of human. Tt's y "tong2 zhi3 niao4" is effective against malovenant spirits (according to my fren).Adding their skulls will protect the building against suddenly crumbling down...
As for the "Kepala Anjing"...I believe it belongs to the same set of "not yet to be proven true or false" group of supernatural creatures...such as the Chupacabra or the Loch Ness Monster..
Remember the newspapers reported the during the demolition of the old KK hospital, human skulls were found when they dug underground?... -
No doubt there'll be some jokers who will actually want to carry out this superstition... and maybe some who really had. When they built the Benjamin Shears Bridge, a lot of parents were worried for their kids wat, and there was a little panic.
But now, we know that buildings and bridges collasping are more due to the lack of engineering ability rather then supernatural causes.