• In Traditional Thai and Chinese Folklore, Butterflies are believed to be vessels for departing souls, and that they carry souls away to higher and happier planes. 
  
• They are seen by many as an expression of transcendence of both earthly pleasure and distress, bringing comfort to the loved ones of those formerly suffering. 
  
• Many people find comfort when mourning death to equate their lost loved one, sometimes even death itself, with a Butterfly, which is almost universally considered beautiful, graceful and a symbol of Freedom.
  
• The Butterfly is believed to act as a vessel for the spirit in-between a death in one life and the reincarnation into the next on the karmic wheel.
  
• Measure Approx. 7/8" x 7/8"
• Highly skilled traditional artisan hand carving from China