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    Folklore of Finland refers to traditional and folk practices, technologies, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and habits in Finland. Finnish folk tradition...
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  • Finnish mythology commonly refers of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people...
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    (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish: [ˈtontːu]) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter...
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  • folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi. Folklore is a concept encompassing expressive traditions of...
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    nations, like Finland, Estonia, and Hungary, which were seeking political independence from their dominant neighbors. Folklore, as a field of study, further...
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    to the Nordic milieu. (Finland)-Swedish folklore has also had a significant impact on the folklore of Finnish speakers. Finland-Swedish literature has...
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    public interest in folklore in Finland and resulted in an increase of literary activity in Finnish. Most of the significant works of the era, written in...
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  • the flag of Finland and the lion featured on the Finnish coat of arms. Finland portal Finlandia Björneborgarnas marsch Sisu Folklore of Finland National...
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  • Folklore is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was surprise-released on July 24, 2020, via Republic Records. Swift...
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  • In Finnish folklore, Kalma is an abstraction or a personification of death or the grave. The word kalma means 'a grave, the smell of a corpse, a corpse'...
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    the detour of American folklore. British Folklore English folklore Anglo-Saxon paganism Estonian folklore Finnish folklore Lithuanian folklore Scandinavian...
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    Folklore of Russia is folklore of Russians and other ethnic groups of Russia. Russian folklore takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and...
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  • Ajatar (category Finnish folklore)
    In Finnish folklore, Ajatar (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑjɑtɑr]), also spelled Ajattara [ˈɑjɑˌtːɑrɑ], Aiätär [ˈɑi̯ætær], or Aijotar [ˈɑi̯jotɑr], is an evil...
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    water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are...
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  • The folklore of India encompasses the folklore of the nation of India and the Indian subcontinent. India is an ethnically and religiously diverse country...
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    Duchy of Finland. The Lutheran religion dominated. Finnish nationalism emerged in the 19th century. It focused on Finnish cultural traditions, folklore, and...
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  • Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during...
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    Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between...
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    (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈlemːiŋˌkæi̯nen]) or Lemminki (pronounced [ˈlemːiŋki]) is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology. He is one of the heroes of...
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    The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and...
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  • This is a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore. It is not a list of names of demons, although some are...
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    Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology...
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    Kertojien perilliset (in Finnish) Kelchner, Georgia Dunham (2013) [1935]. Dreams in Old Norse Literature and their Affinities in Folklore. Cambridge University...
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    compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth...
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    Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland. It is the study and appreciation of how people...
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  • Hiisi (category Finnish folklore)
    Much of the recorded folklore about hiisi comes from the village of Narva in Vesilahti, Finland. There are tales of cauldrons of coins being caught by...
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    folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks. The human owners of...
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    largest bodies of folklore in Canada belong to the aboriginal and French-Canadian cultures. English-Canadian folklore and the folklore of recent immigrant...
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    Väinämöinen (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    Väinämöinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈʋæi̯næˌmøi̯nen]) is a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national...
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    The coat of arms of Finland is a crowned lion on a red field, the right foreleg replaced with an armoured human arm brandishing a sword, trampling on a...
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