The Wax Child - Olga Ravn their journey to Latvia

their journey to Latvia

she awakens his fierce longing for tenderness

She listened

self-interest and self-deceit – and what happens in a war over the truth

by angels that line the roof like insects

The Wax Child - Olga Ravn their journey to LatviaIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the