[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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Re: Finland.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure thing! Fun fact about Finland. We were among the last countries in Europe to become industrialized, so a lot of folk beliefs survived practically until the Second World War. Folklore has been collected from 1880's forward, and we have one of the world's largest folklore archives.

My favorite is a phenomenon known as "metsänpeitto" or forest's cover. Sometimes a person or a domestic animal or something would suddenly disappear in the forest, and though there would be search parties they could not be found. This was because they were in the forest's cover.
The person would be able to see the people searching for them, but if they tried to call out to them no word would come out and they would find themselves being unable to move, and the searchers would walk past them without noticing them. To the searchers they would appear as a rock or a tree stump.
Sometimes a strange creature would come to the lost one and accompany them through the forest. If the lost person is a child there were reports of it feeding and protecting the kid.
There was three ways to get out of the forest's cover. First was to ask a priest to bless the forest (they often refused), second was to sound the church bells and the third was to ask tietäjä to bind it (literally means "the one who knows", they were local wise men, sort of like wizards).

Have another, more amusing story: When the Christianity came the Finns weren't really fond of getting baptized, so the church payed them a little. After receiving the payment the Finns would go to the nearest lake and wash it off, and then go back for seconds.