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A small metal votive shaped as a limb, an organ, a person or an animal.
Also known as: Ex-voto charm, Votive charm
A small stamped charm in the shape of a limb, an organ, a person, a house or an animal, pinned to a shrine or a saint's image in Latin American and Iberian Catholic practice — either petitioning for that thing or giving thanks for it.
A small metal charm shaped as a limb, an organ, an animal, a person or an object, pinned or nailed to a shrine, altar or saint's image in Iberian and Latin American Catholic devotional practice.
Iberia and Latin America
Offered either as a petition — a leg offered for a leg to be healed — or in thanks for a petition already answered. The same object serves both, and which is meant is not readable from the charm alone.
Continues a votive practice attested in the ancient Mediterranean, where anatomical terracotta and metal votives were left at healing sanctuaries in comparable numbers.
Ancient antecedents; current practice
A small flat stamped metal outline in the shape of a limb, an organ, an animal or an object, with a small hole or loop for pinning.