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Karkotussanoja

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

In English: Banishment charms (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Parannusloitsut
Poems189
Verses2,313
Collection places83
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · D. E. D. Europaeus · Samuli Paulaharju · Elias Lönnrot · Christfrid Ganander · Antti Rytkönen · Väinö Salminen · E. F. Rautell · R. von Becker · H. Tepponen

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The archive’s description

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

Karkotussanat ovat tautiloitsujen tyypillistä kliseeainesta, joissa tautia tai taudinaiheuttajaa kehotetaan ja käsketään poistumaan. Tyypillisiä ovat manauspaikkojen kuvaukset ja niiden pitkät ketjut sekä karkotuksessa ja kyydityksessä auttavien apurien kuvaukset. Ryhmään on kerätty vain ne karkotussanat, jotka esiintyvät itsenäisenä ja/tai dominoivat loitsuja, joiden käyttötarkoitusta ei ole spesifioitu.

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 23 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s6
1810s8
1820s6
1830s7
1840s21
1850s8
1860s1
1870s1
1880s48
1890s25
1900s19
1910s22
1920s6
1930s10
year not recorded1

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
Tautien synty5
Tietäjän apuri2
Kerskaukset ja varaukset2
Erilaisia parannusloitsuja2
Pirujen ja kummitusten karkottaminen2
Pahasilmä2
Vesi vanhin veljeksistä2

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. Erilaisia parannusloitsuja (Various healing charms)
  2. Painajainen (Nightmare)
  3. Kalmasta tarttuu (Ailment caught from the grave)
  4. Kylvetyssanoja (Sauna bathing charms)
  5. Hammastauti (Toothache charm)
  6. Raani (Skin Affliction Charm)
  7. Kaatumatauti (Epilepsy Charm)
  8. Riisi (Rickets charm)
  9. Riiden synty (Origin of rickets (riisi))
  10. Kirot (Curses)
  11. Lapsen päästäminen kiroista (Freeing a Child from Curses)
  12. Ähky (Colic charm)
  13. Lapsen itkettäjä (Child crying charm)
  14. Varautuminen vieraita vastaan (Preparing for strangers)
  15. Rutto (Plague)
  16. Käärmeen nostatus (Snake conjuring)
  17. Rikkeistä päästetään (Freed from Transgressions)
  18. Kohtaus (Sudden attack charm)
  19. Ähkyn synty (Origin of colic)
  20. Sorsa soitti kanteletta (The Duck Played the Kantele)

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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.