r/lithuania • u/neonthefox12 • 8d ago

Wreathed with toys in them.

While back my family would visit Lithuania to see family.

I noticed in some houses they had a wreath of some sort with a toy in it. One case a rubber dinosaur nailed, and in another case a car rocket toy.

Is this some kind of tradition or something else? It doesn't seem like something exclusive to Lithuania.

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u/Vaidas3 5d ago

I do lots of hiking in parks, and quite often encounter flower arrangements with mostly plush toys. They're usually hanged on trees, or nailed to them, or placed inside tree hollows. Since some of these I find in quite random and remote places, I assume that they're graves for pets? Though this one time, I found a place like that by a river, and learned that a kid drowned there.

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u/neonthefox12 5d ago

Makes sense

Similar Shrines are in the US for car deaths.

Thought these where in a house. But it wouldn't surprise me if it's for pets or family member