Motif
Enchanted music summons animals, birds, forest beings, and sky daughters
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A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family, within the sub-family Enchantment of Nature and Animals. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20915-21098 confidence: high
Wainamoinen tunes and plays the harp he fashioned, adds song to playing, and produces gladness, harmony, and marvelous music that all Northland stops to hear.
After Wainamoinen plays and sings, forest animals, Tapio/Metsola beings, birds, and daughters of the welkin gather or listen in rapt attention.
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