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Rikka silmässä

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

In English: Charm for a speck in the eye (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems391
Verses3,884
Collection places119
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Väinö Kaukonen · K. A. Gottlund · Samuli Paulaharju · Antti Rytkönen · Väinö Salminen · Ahti Rytkönen · P. Ollilainen · Heikki Meriläinen · M. Nurmio

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The archive’s description

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

Siikasen, silmään (joskus kurkkuun) tarttuvan rikan tai vihneen loitsujen tyypilliset ainekset ovat puhuttelut, syntyaihelmat ja karkotussanat. Siikasta puhutellaan pihan ja pellon rikaksi. Siikaselle tyypillisiin karkotussanoihin kuuluvat aihelmat Edessäsi salo synkkä, takanasi lieto meri sekä Kuu on noussut, päivä noussut, sinä vielä nousematta. Rikan irtoamista saatetaan vauhdittaa tyypillisesti synnytyskipujen loitsuissa esiintyvillä liukastussanoilla (Nouda kiiskeltä kinoa, mateelta nuljaskaa). Useilla alueilla esiintyy varsinaisten Siikasen sanojen lisäksi myös muunlaisia lyhyitä loitsuja, joilla on poistettu rikkoja silmästä - esimerkkinä aihelma Sika/Susi meni silmään, tule karhu nostamaan (II, III, XIII).

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 59 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s1
1800s2
1810s8
1820s7
1830s8
1840s4
1850s9
1870s4
1880s171
1890s65
1900s21
1910s34
1920s11
1930s45
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
Siikasen synty97
Kolme on koskea kovoa2
Viljan 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. Taikinan kohotus (Dough-Rising Charm)
  2. Puun sanat (Tree charm)
  3. Kiven vihat (Stone's wrath)
  4. Kärpän synty (Origin of the stoat)
  5. Läävämato (Barn worm charm)
  6. Sammakon synty (Origin of the Frog)
  7. Tikku sormesta (Splinter from the finger)
  8. Läävämadon synty (Origin of the Barn Worm)
  9. Synnytys (Childbirth charm)
  10. Sammakon jälki (Frog's track)
  11. Kärpän pureman parantaminen lehmästä (Healing a cow from a fly bite)
  12. Hammastauti (Toothache charm)
  13. Karjan päästäminen metsänpeitosta (Freeing cattle from the forest's cover)
  14. Valtuutus (Empowerment Charm)
  15. Pistos (Stabbing pain charm)
  16. Raudan synty (Origin of iron)
  17. Rupi (Scab healing charm)
  18. Kehrätkäämme silkkilankaa (Let us spin silk thread)
  19. Vasikan nimeäminen (Naming the calf)
  20. Oluen valmistus (Beer brewing)

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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.