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Käärmeen pidätys ja lumous

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

In English: Snake restraint and enchantment (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems605
Verses1,698
Collection places227
Collected1820s to 1930s
CollectorsSamuli Paulaharju · L. Kaukamaa · Eemeli Vihervaara · Aukusti Salo · Laina Hänninen · Martti Mattila · Vilho Saariluoma · V. J. Kallio · M. Nurmio · Herman Brandt

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The archive’s description

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

Käärme pysäytetään ja estetään pakenemasta esim. maan alle, jolloin se voidaan tappaa. Loitsu on tyypillisesti lyhyt manaus, jossa maata tai pirua kehotetaan pitämään hevosensa tms. eli käärmeen. Vain Raja- ja Pohjois-Karjalassa esiintyy myös pidempi loitsutyyppi, jolla käärme lumotaan loitsijan kämmenelle.

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 167 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1820s1
1830s1
1840s2
1850s5
1870s2
1880s77
1890s97
1900s80
1910s199
1920s32
1930s109

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
Käärmeen sanat6
Käärme estetään puremasta4
Käärmeen synty2

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. Käärmeen sanat (Snake charm)
  2. Käärmeen karkotus (Snake banishing charm)
  3. Käärme estetään puremasta (Charm to prevent snake bites)
  4. Kaalimato (Cabbage worm)
  5. Vainajan kummitteleminen estetään (Preventing the dead from haunting)
  6. Pirun vallasta vapautuminen (Liberation from the devil's power)
  7. Käärmeen pureman historiola (Snake Bite Incantation)
  8. Ampiaisen lumous (Wasp enchantment)
  9. Käärmeen pureman parantaminen eläimestä (Healing a Snakebite on an Animal)
  10. Pirujen ja kummitusten karkottaminen (Driving away devils and ghosts)
  11. Raudan lumous (Iron enchantment)
  12. Käärmeen nostatus (Snake conjuring)
  13. Verensulku (Blood stopping charm)
  14. Kalamiehen vala (The fisherman's oath)
  15. Huolihevonen (The horse of worry)
  16. Pirun synty (Origin of the devil)
  17. Tu tu pallukkani (Lullaby for my little one)
  18. Juutit (The Jews (seasonal folk song))
  19. Karjan suojeleminen käärmeeltä (Protecting Cattle from Snakes)
  20. Niin kulkee kultasemme komeasti (So Handsomely Our Darling Walks)

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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.