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For more than 50 years, the Blood Tower of Theth in Albania has held no more than cattle fodder. A revivial of ancient rituals of vengeance in Albania, however, threatens to bring it back into use. Under the dictates of the blood feud, a centuries-old code of upholding family honor, stone towers were built as "neutral corners" to which a feuding clansman with fresh blood on his hands could retire, to await the judgment of elders.