During medieval times, visitors inside palaces or castles often found themselves long distances away from a privy or chamber pot and would urinate on the interior walls whenever and wherever the urge overtook them. In many such structures, the lord of the manor would order crosses to be painted or chalked over large areas of the walls in the hope that potential micturating culprits would take their bladders elsewhere and spare the wall rather than desecrate a religious icon.
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