[[sacred-sites]]
# Gardens
## Estonian Offering Gardens
Small sacred areas--at old farms-- surrounded with a fence, without any visibly specific characteristics.
They were taboo, only visited for offering purposes
Offerings: money, food, clothing, ribbons (Often 'the new' or 'the first' is mentioned as a gift.)
Remembered in oral tradition
Common in Mulgimma district of (Southern) Estonia
Sources
*Christianization in Estonia: A Process of Dual-Faith and Syncretism by Heiki Valk In: The Cross Goes North ed. Martin Carver