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100 1 _aHeinonen, Iida,
_d1869-
245 1 0 _aHalikon hakoniskat 2
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-26
505 0 _aLaskjane -- Pääsjäne -- Helatuarsta -- Helunta.
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _aHalikon hakoniskat 2 by Iida Heinonen and Niilo Kallio is a collection of folkloric sketches written in the early 20th century. It vividly portrays rural festivities and folkways in the village of Talola in Halikko, focusing on Shrovetide, Easter, Ascension Day, and Pentecost. The scenes revolve around the Keskitalo household—daughters Lempi, Hilma, Alma, and the servants Mari, Kustaava, and farmhands Matti, Jussi, and Hessu—told in lively dialect with humor and ethnographic detail. The opening of the volume sets the stage with a note that this part covers early-year feasts, then plunges into Shrovetide bustle: playful divinations with salt and names, a comic “pig oracle,” shoe-throwing omens, and a dare to eat nine herrings to dream of a future spouse. The household debates permitted tasks, rushes out for sledding, shares a rich laskiainen soup, and visits neighbors for cup-lifting fortunes (keys, scissors, rings, and colored threads) and raucous word games, with drink flowing and teasing aplenty. Next comes Easter preparation: making mämmi in birch-bark baskets, quarrels over borrowed baskets, baking, and mishaps—Alma’s basket topples, Mari burns her fingers tasting, then overindulges and falls ill. Good Friday brings a shift to solemnity with hymns, readings, and black clothing for church, even as village chatter jokes about “mämmi-stained” mouths and old beliefs about witches, blending devotion, custom, and comedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: WSOY, 1922
653 _aFolk literature, Finnish
653 _aVarsinais-Suomi (Finland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
700 1 _aKallio, Niilo,
_d1890-1968
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77130
999 _c117852
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