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by guerrilla 399 days ago
> to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction.

It seems not:

> A Scandinavian tradition of hoisting a pine tree to the top of framed out buildings had a more functional purpose: when the pine needles fell off, the builders knew the wood frame below had cured/dried out so they could enclose the building.[2]