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Pistos

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

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

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems496
Verses15,662
Collection places172
Collected1650s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · A. A. Borenius · D. E. D. Europaeus · Elias Lönnrot · Heikki Meriläinen · Samuli Paulaharju · Väinö Salminen · K. A. Gottlund · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · K. Karjalainen

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The archive’s description

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

Pistostauti muodostaa ailaan, ammuksen, lennon ja lävyksen kanssa kiinteän ryhmän. Loitsujen tyypillisiä aineksia ovat synnyt, numeraaliformulalle rakentuva pistoksen uhkaus ("sinä pistät n pistoin, minä pistän n pistoin"), erilaiset taudin karkotus- ja parannussanat (mm. kipusanat ja voiteiden sanat) sekä pistostaudin aiheuttajan, pistosnuolen poistamiseen tarvitun apurin kuvaukset ja kutsut.

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 112 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1650s2
1660s1
1700s1
1780s5
1800s1
1810s14
1820s16
1830s25
1840s35
1850s10
1860s3
1870s37
1880s134
1890s84
1900s50
1910s41
1920s21
1930s16

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
Pistoksen synty237
Tautien synty9
Sämpsä Pellervoinen6
Erilaisia parannusloitsuja6
Ähkyn synty4
Ähky4
Kilpakosinta3
Tulen synty3
Sammon ryöstö3
Kanteleen soitto3
Venepuun etsintä2
Nimettömät taudit2

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. Ammus eläimessä (Charm for a shot in an animal)
  2. Ammuksen synty (Origin of the arrow)
  3. Tautien synty (Origin of Diseases)
  4. Ammus (Hunter's Charm)
  5. Riiden synty (Origin of rickets (riisi))
  6. Ähky (Colic charm)
  7. Riisi (Rickets charm)
  8. Iso tammi (The great oak)
  9. Raanin synty (Origin of raani affliction)
  10. Ähkyn synty (Origin of colic)
  11. Raani (Skin Affliction Charm)
  12. Lennos (In Flight)
  13. Karjan suoloja tehtäessä (Making cattle charms)
  14. Lävys (Lävys (folk ailment charm))
  15. Pirtti (The Farmhouse Hall)
  16. Käärmeen pureman parantaminen eläimestä (Healing a Snakebite on an Animal)
  17. Pilvilampi (Cloud Pond)
  18. Sorsa soitti kanteletta (The Duck Played the Kantele)
  19. Kirot (Curses)
  20. Ampiaisen lumous (Wasp enchantment)

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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.