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Näärännäppy

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

In English: Eye stye charm (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems107
Verses229
Collection places85
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsSamuli Paulaharju · Toini Kohvakka · Anshelm Koskenjaakko · Ahti Rytkönen · Jenny Paulaharju · Kerttu Luukkonen · Heikki Haataja · Kaarle Krohn · M. Nurmio · Antti Valve

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The archive’s description

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

Näärännäpyn lyhyt loitsu on jaettavissa kolmeen perustyyppiin: koiralle osoitettu kehotus ottaa nänni pois silmästä, toistettu toteamus asiaintilasta ("Näärännäppy on silmässäin") sekä taikatapaan viittaava tai poistumiskehoituksen motivaatioksi esitetty väite "Näärännäppy, kotas/kotis/kirkkos palaa!". Dialogimuoto on yleinen. Paiseen sanat esiintyvät muutaman kerran.

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 25 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s1
1880s11
1890s16
1900s12
1910s30
1920s11
1930s25
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.

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. Nari (Creaking-wrist charm)
  2. Paise (Boil charm)
  3. Rakko kielessä (Blister on the Tongue)
  4. Näärännäpyn nostatus (Stye removal charm)
  5. Hevosen purema (Horse bite charm)
  6. Struuma (Goiter Charm)
  7. Kaulatauti (Throat ailment charm)
  8. Syylä (Wart charm)
  9. Paiseet kotieläimissä (Boils in domestic animals)
  10. Leelo otsimine (Seeking the Leelo Song)ERAB type
  11. Painajainen lehmässä ja hevosessa (Nightmare Charm for Cattle and Horses)
  12. Tule kissa kiikuttamaan (Come, cat, rock the cradle)
  13. Jää, jää jäkevä (Jää, jää, jäkevä (refrain))
  14. Varis varis pesäs palaa (Crow, crow, your nest is burning)
  15. On viety kylästä nirtut, nartut (Carried off from the village, the nirtut-nartut)
  16. Silmäpaskon nostatus (Eye Crust Lifting Charm)
  17. Tulipalossa (During a fire)
  18. Juopoksi noituminen (Charm to make someone a drunkard)
  19. Tule uni uunin päältä (Come sleep from atop the stove)
  20. Vedestä tarttuu (Ailment caught from water)

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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.