Greek Wax Votive Offering Angels Zalipie is a small village

Zalipie is a small village in the southern Poland

how they can act as repositories of personal or social history and how they function in communities

Marian keeps making these birds to keep her memory alive

she carved her favourite religious scenes

It reminds us of a foxglove

Greek Wax Votive Offering Angels Zalipie is a small villageFolka is excited to present these unique small sculptures of body parts made from wax. In the ancient Greece, votive offerings were presented to a god, sometimes either in the hope of a cure or as thanks for one. They were made in the shape of the afflicted body part so it could be an ear, foot, heart etc. Nowadays, this tradition is still alive in some regions in Greece. People would bring this wax offering to the church hoping for a recovery.