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Yskä

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

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

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tautiloitsut
Poems163
Verses898
Collection places69
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsSulo Haltsonen · Toini Kohvakka · Kaarle Krohn · Ulla Mannonen · Samuli Paulaharju · Lauri Laiho · Olavi Pennanen · Hoikkala · Räty · A. D. Neovius

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The archive’s description

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

Yskän loitsut ovat tyypillisesti lyhyitä alkuperän tiedusteluja ja niihin kombinoituja karkotussanoja. Yskää manataan ja karkotetaan Yskälään, Ukkolaan, toiseen taloon ja toisia vaivaamaan.

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 9 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s1
1820s1
1830s3
1840s2
1850s5
1880s25
1890s14
1900s12
1910s13
1920s5
1930s82

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
Yskän 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. Lasta kylvetetään kunnolliseksi (Bathing the Child for Propriety)
  2. Lasta kylvetettäessä (Bathing the child)
  3. Taudin alkuperän tiedustelu (Inquiring the origin of disease)
  4. Karkotussanoja (Banishment charms)
  5. Päänsärky (Headache charm)
  6. Tuulesta tarttuu (Wind-borne affliction)
  7. Näin ennen eukko, isä lauloi (As mother and father once sang)
  8. Räähkä (Sin)
  9. Tulen väki (Fire Folk)
  10. Räähkän synty (Origin of sin (räähkä))
  11. Ryöhyntäinen (The Impetuous One)
  12. Painajainen (Nightmare)
  13. Silmäpasko (Eye Discharge Charm)
  14. Tuulen synty (Origin of the wind)
  15. Rupi (Scab healing charm)
  16. Vatsatauti (Stomach Ailment Charm)
  17. Lapsen itkettäjä (Child crying charm)
  18. Poika tuulen tuoma (Boy brought by the wind)
  19. Paimenen tiedustelu käeltä (Shepherd's inquiry to the cuckoo)
  20. Varis raakkuu, kuusi kaatuu (Crow caws, spruce falls)

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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.