{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ms2/index.htm","path":"neu/ms2/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ms2/index.htm","text":"| | Magic Songs of the West Finns, Vol. 2 by John Abercromby [1898] | \nThis is the second volume of Abercromby's Magic Songs of the West Finns, which contains the core text here, a translation of L\u00f6nnrot's Suomen Kansan muinaisia Loitsurunoja, 'Bygone Magic Songs of the Finns.' L\u00f6nnrot was the scholar who pieced together the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.\nReminiscent of the Carmina Gadelica, the collection includes a wide variety of spells, formulae, prayers, and origin myths, all used on a regular basis by shamans, healers and peasants from ancient times in Finland. The songs include dozens of names of gods, goddesses, heroes, nature spirits, and weave them together using surreal and symbolic language. Although scholars could wish for better attribution of the source of each song, this collection is an incredible look into an archaic way of thought.--J.B. Hare, March 9th, 2010.","title":"Magic Songs of the West Finns, Vol. 2 Index","type":"page"}