1d12 Roadside Shrines


1 A round brick pillar with worn and faded inscriptions around the base

2 A hawthorn tree with multicolored rags and ribbons tied into its branches

3 A tiny wooden cabinet protecting a painting of a holy beast

4 A roughly-shaped stone statue, weathered and hung with strands of glass beads

5 A single-room chapel with an altar and a little blue stained glass window

6 A beech tree with a sprawling canopy and eyes carved into its trunk

7 A hexagonal cairn of white stones raised in memory of a folk hero

8 A niche cut in the bole of an oak holding a porcelain icon, framed by a wreath of wheat sheaves tied with red string

9 A simple stone table piled high with food offerings and candles

10 A holy well hewn out of solid rock, fed by a spring above the carved basin 

11 An intricately-carved wood idol of a young woman, offerings of flowers and bread placed at her feet

12 A stout ash pole erected at a crossroads with nails hammered into every inch of its surface


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