[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Finland.

[cloud_riven]

If you're still around, I would love to know more folklore! The forest cover sounds so spooky, yet also somehow comforting. I'm really curious about tietäjä and what exactly they do/how.

Re: Finland.

[(Anonymous)]

I am around!

I try to keep this as non-complicated as I can, so here goes:
There are two kinds of powers in Finnish folklore väki and luonne.
Väki (can be translated to mean either power or people) is sort of thing that appears in nature and stuff. Things that have väki include: forest, ground, water, rock, dead, iron and women (women gave birth so their väki was assumed to be in their vaginas). If väki was disturbed it would turn into viha (=anger) and that would go into people and make people ill. Väki could manifest itself into elves (Finnish word for elves is haltia or haltija which is a reference to owning property). Everything in Finnish folklore is a damn elf.
Tietäjäs had luonne. Luonne means strength of character, and either a woman or a man could have it, though most often tietäjäs were men. Luonne could be picked up by example, if a new-born had teeth in its mouth already.
Tietäjäs had 4 major jobs: 1) Curing illness caused by viha (they were usually quite good healers anyway) 2) returning stolen goods 3) "sending back the dog" 4) getting people safe from the forest's cover.
Usually the mere mention that tietäjä was in town would return stolen goods, and if not tietäjä would mark the thief. "Sending back the dog" refers to if someone had been cursed (since all Finnish women had väki, they could in theory all do curses and other spells) sending the curse back to the one who put it there.
Now curing illness is the really interesting part. See tietäjäs weren't really magical, they were just stubborn. The trick to getting the angered väki out of the person, was to get more angry than it. Basically the tietäjä would get super-mad, stomp around, start frothing at the mount and recite poetry in Kalevala-metre. (Kalevala is the Finnish national epic written completely in poetry) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochaic_tetrameter#Kalevala_meter)