Kontiolahti, Finland

Sohmeronlähde

According to folklore, wizards have done magic at Sohmeronlähde sacred spring until the 1800s. In the Folklore archives of the Finnish Literature Society there is a note that in 1909 a wooden idol in human shape was found from the spring. (J. Lukkarinen 1909.) http://kulttuuriymparisto.nba.fi/netsovellus/rekisteriportaali/mjreki/read/asp/r_kohde_det1.aspx?KOHDE_ID=276010005 http://www.suomenmuseotonline.fi/fi/kohde/Museoviraston+kuva-arkisto/4878%3A316?pathId=1.356.2786.2801.&itemIndex=11

2014-10-18

Jukka Timonen

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