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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

The wooden poorboy

Posted by JK
This is a detail seen in one of the earlier photoes. In finnish "Vaivaisukko" is s a wooden boy standing by the church of Nurmo. These statues can be found in many churches in Finland. The wooden statue has a coin-sized hole in it and people can donate money for the parish.
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2 comments:

  1. Leeds daily photo25 August 2011 at 00:34

    This is very interesting custom, never seen anything like this here in England.

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  2. etelämaalainen27 October 2011 at 19:51

    This is so cute! I myself come from the Southern Finland, and haven't ever seen anything like this. More of these, please!

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