Holidays in Tyrol : Kufstein, Klobenstein and Paneveggio
, re inaili s unopened. Adjoining thè old man’s dwelling is thè little cliapel, dedicated to St. John thè Baptist. It has thè usuai appur- tenances, an alte, an organ, a gallery, a side aitar adorned by a life-size image of thè Virgin crowned, which, as thè ancient one says, ivas brought froni Spaili. The style of thè face corroborates him. But hesides all this thè walls are crowded witli votive offerings ; pictures, prints, wreaths, flowers, crucifixes, and an anatomica! collection, all in wax, of legs
, feet, arms, liands, breasts, hearts, dolls, and a habe swaddled in thè ordinary nianner of Tyrol, looking very much like a big chrysalis. Such a stränge 'siglit I never before saiv. A weekly Service is hekl here, and on thè 24th of June, il thè Baptist’s day, throngs of pilgrims mount to thè cliapel, and thus thè stock of tokens grows always larger. Between thè side aitar and tlie door a curious painting, said to be of tlie seventeenth Century, representing tlie beheading of St. John, Claims