The lecture touches on the issue of the functioning of stones with carvings in folk religiosity and the formation of so-called miraculous places. In Poland, we can find several dozen stones with carvings in the shape of feet, less often hands or other body elements - so-called petrosomatoglyphs. In folk beliefs, they are a testimony to the presence of saints, the Mother of God or Jesus on earth. They are shrouded in a number of legends and tales and are the subject of local cult. They have been mentioned in written sources since the Middle Ages. Stones carved in the shape of a foot are known in Eastern and Western Europe, where they are interpreted differently as an expression of pre-Christian beliefs or representations related to the medieval pilgrimage movement.
