In some Japanese temples may be seen suspended coils of rope woven from human hair. Such ropes, made of hair sacrificed by thousands cf women and girls, were used to hoist stone and timber when the temples were built, and arc preserved as relics.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19250, 14 August 1924, Page 8
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