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100 1 _aHaarla, Lauri,
_d1890-1944
245 1 0 _aSynti
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-09
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen, Johanna Kankaanpää, and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Synti" by Lauri Haarla is a play written in the early 20th century. Set in Finland during the witch hunts, it follows Pastor Elias Kålk’s consuming desire for the orphan Agnes and the embattled lives of Leena Pirjetantytär and her lame son Ismael as village piety, superstition, and authority collide. The drama promises a fierce reckoning with spiritual hypocrisy, sexual coercion, and communal violence sharpened by Walpurgis Night rites. The opening of the play takes place on Walpurgis Eve in a poorhouse: Leena and her fragile son Ismael toil and worry, a “possessed” inmate spits dark verses at the Kolk line, and a swaggering student steals drink. Taneli Öhrn comes to dress Agnes as the Vappu-bride under orders from the pastor and the royal bailiff; Elias Kålk soon arrives and cloaks his pursuit of Agnes in sacred language. The procession seizes Agnes despite Ismael’s pleas, leaving him shattered. Shifting to the parsonage days later, Elias and Agnes show intimacy; Geila confronts the pastor’s betrayal; students mock and stone the house; and Ismael, tormented by a demonic vision, unravels. Churchwarden Laukkus challenges Kålk on charity, authority, and morals; Kålk vows to smash the Marian image and purge “superstition” with the bailiff’s backing, just before Leena appears to demand communion—where the excerpt cuts off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1923
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77433
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_d118153