Motif
protective cattle charm
protective_cattle_charm
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Blessings, Healing, and Protective Charms. 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 17994-18184 confidence: high
Summer-daughter is invoked to give fodder, water, provisions, and abundant milk to named cows and to cows given to Kullervo's keeping.
The passage is structured as repeated spoken petitions to named beings to secure milk, feed and water cows, guard them, prepare their path, and protect them from the bear.
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