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Ehtynyt tai pilattu lehmä lypsäväksi

Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus

In English: Charm for a dried-up or spoiled cow (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Kotieläintalous
Poems116
Verses1,351
Collection places63
Collected1830s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Heikki Meriläinen · Iivana Marttini · Väinö Kaukonen · Sakari Jouhki · Elias Lönnrot · Samuli Paulaharju · Ahti Rytkönen · Erkki Horttanainen · H. Granqvist

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.

Ehtynyt tai pilattu lehmä saadaan lypsäväksi loitsuilla, joissa tiedustellaan, minne maito on kadonnut, ja kutsutaan maitoa takaisin esim. manalta. Loitsuissa esiintyy myös erilaisia lypsäjän sanoja. Kateet (suutelukset, silmäykset) ovat useissa tapauksissa ilmeisin tulkinta maidon katoamisen syystä.

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

…and 3 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1830s5
1840s3
1850s1
1860s1
1870s1
1880s40
1890s23
1900s9
1910s12
1920s8
1930s13

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Karjan suojeleminen ja päästäminen kateista14
Maito-onnea laitumelle laskiessa2
Karjan suoloja tehtäessä2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Lypsäjän sanoja (Milkmaid's charms)
  2. Maito-onnea laitumelle laskiessa (Milk charm when sending cattle to pasture)
  3. Maito-onnea poikineelle lehmälle (Milk Luck Charm for a New Cow)
  4. Kateen sanat (Envy incantation)
  5. Imettäjän ehtyminen (Nursing Mother's Milk Failing)
  6. Maito tai piimä estetään venymästä (Preventing Milk from Going Ropy)
  7. Karjan suojeleminen ja päästäminen kateista (Protecting cattle from the evil eye)
  8. Pyssyn päästö pilauksesta (Freeing the gun from misfire)
  9. Kalastajan varautuminen kateita vastaan (Fisherman's Protection Against the Evil Eye)
  10. Metsästäjän varautuminen kateita vastaan (Hunter's protection against envy)
  11. Veden väen nosto (Tietäjän avunpyyntö) (Summoning the water force (wise man's plea))
  12. Ei tytti manalle joua (Girl does not go to the underworld)
  13. Karjaa laitumelle laskettaessa (Releasing cattle to pasture)
  14. Poikinut lehmä tai vasikka varataan (Consecrating the Calved Cow or Calf)
  15. Kuohittava eläin suojellaan kateelta (Protecting the Animal Being Castrated from the Evil Eye)
  16. Elättiketun kadehtijaa vastaan (Against the Envier of the Pet Fox)
  17. Vasikan menestyminen (The Calf's Thriving)
  18. Vedenhaltialle (To the Water Spirit)
  19. Lipeätä keittäessä (Lye-boiling charm)
  20. Tervanpoltto (Tar burning)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the SKVR type index of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS); the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.