This lovely wax book is available from Kiosk, on Spring Street, for twenty-two dollars. You can also buy it on the Web site, which explains that the book is inspired by a tradition practiced in Fátima, Portugal, the site of a major Catholic shrine:

In Fátima…one of the things you can do to save/fix yourself is to toss a wax depiction of your problem in a gigantic oven and say a prayer to the Catholic God. For example, I would toss this book in and hope I could finally get through that book without falling asleep or maybe get around to doing my bookkeeping.

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(Photograph by Alisa Grifo, Kiosk.)

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