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The usual but unintelligible custom is still followed and the house-builders make on the actual building site a figure of the Spirit of the house with powdered chalk during the ceremonies of laying the foundations. That chalk-mark is, however, defaced in no time, while in the case of the Svastika Mansion the court-yard and its five landings, representing the Spirit of the house, may be expected to last as long as the house does.