AKIPRESS.COM - Holy well Bala Bulak (bala — child, bulak — spring) is located in the village of Kara-Bulak in Batken region. Women with fertility problems arrive at this place to ask for a child, especially those who want a baby boy, Turmush correspondent says. 

Local villager Uson Murzapov said he built a sculpture depicting a little boy holding a cup in 1999. He said this spring was one of multiple springs coming down the mountain tops before he separated them and made the water flow from the bowl that the boy holds in his hands.

"Girls and women who struggle to have a baby come here. They pray and ask for a chance to become mothers. I built a sculpture of a child so that arriving women could drink the water from the hands of the child," the artist commented. He said that he heard many suggestions to recreate a Manneken Pis-like sculpture here.

"Women who pray near the spring with faith in their hearts then eventually get pregnant. And then they come back here with their children to thank me and sacrifice livestock," he said.

Manneken Pis is a landmark small bronze sculpture in Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain's basin. It was designed by Hiëronymus Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1618 or 1619.