Prasat Suor Prat (Khmer: ប្រាសាទសួព្រ័ត) is a series of twelve towers spanning north to south lining the eastern side of a royal square in Angkor Thom, near the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia.
[1] The current tower's name in Khmer means "The towers of the tightrope dancers," a romantic idea derived from the local belief that they were used to support a high wire stretched between them for acrobatics during royal festivals.
Zhou Daguan describes in his records that the towers are used to settle disputes among Angkorian people.
When two men dispute over some unknown matter, each of the contestants is forced to sit in one of them while the relatives stand watch at the base.
After three or four days, he who is wrong shows it by suffering some illness - ulcers, or catarrh, or malignant fever - while the other remains in perfect health.