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Lapsen maitohampaan lähtiessä

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

In English: When the child loses a milk tooth (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems443
Verses932
Collection places221
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsSamuli Paulaharju · Eemeli Vihervaara · Aukusti Salo · Laina Hänninen · Mytologinen sanakirja Sanakirjasäätiö · Anshelm Koskenjaakko · V. J. Kallio · Toivo Kaukoranta · Jenny Paulaharju · Väinö Salminen

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The archive’s description

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

Lapsen maitohammas heitettiin sen irrottua uunin päälle ja uusia hampaita vahvistettiin lyhyillä loitsusanoilla. Vanha, luiseksi tai sittaiseksi kutsuttu hammas toivotettiin pois, esim. hiirelle tai lukille, ja itselle toivottiin uutta, rautaista hammasta.

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 161 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s2
1860s1
1870s1
1880s13
1890s23
1900s27
1910s212
1920s74
1930s88
year not recorded2

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
Hammastauti2

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. Hambasõnad (Tooth charm)ERAB type
  2. Hammas (Tooth charm)ERAB type
  3. Kilinkali-leikki (Ring-a-ling game)
  4. Varsalle rautahampaan toivotus (Iron teeth wish for the foal)
  5. Hiiren karkottaminen heinästä ja viljasta (Driving the mouse from hay and grain)
  6. Karjaonnen säilyttäminen lehmää myydessä (Cattle-luck charm when selling a cow)
  7. Hammastauti (Toothache charm)
  8. Syöpäläisten karkotus navetasta (Driving pests from the barn)
  9. Äänen sortuminen (Voice loss charm)
  10. Hiiri juoksi hirttä myöten (The mouse ran along the rafter)
  11. Hiiri laulelee ladossa (The Mouse Sings in the Barn)
  12. Kukon ja kanan saunamatka (Rooster and hen's sauna trip)
  13. Hiiri saappaaseen (Mouse in the Boot)
  14. Jyrki jyrähti, kello kolahti (Jyrki (St. George's Day) thundered, the bell clanged)
  15. Päänsärky (Headache charm)
  16. Vellenaise pilkamine (Mocking the brother's wife)ERAB type
  17. Anne sõim (Scolding of Anne)ERAB type
  18. Nauriisilla (Playing turnips (children's game))
  19. Hevonen kadonnut veljeltä (Brother's lost horse)
  20. Hiirisillä (Mouse game)

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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.