Halikon hakoniskat 2 by Iida Heinonen and Niilo Kallio
Halikon hakoniskat 2 by Iida Heinonen and Niilo Kallio is a collection of folkloric sketches written in the early 20th century. It vividly portrays rural festivities and folkways in the village of Talola in Halikko, focusing on Shrovetide, Easter, Ascension Day, and Pentecost. The scenes revolve around the Keskitalo household—daughters Lempi, Hilma, Alma, and the servants Mari, Kustaava, and farmhands Matti, Jussi, and Hessu—told in lively dialect with humor and ethnographic detail.
The opening of the volume sets the stage with a note that this part covers early-year feasts, then plunges into Shrovetide bustle: playful divinations with salt and names, a comic “pig oracle,” shoe-throwing omens, and a dare to eat nine herrings to dream of a future spouse. The household debates permitted tasks, rushes out for sledding, shares a rich laskiainen soup, and visits neighbors for cup-lifting fortunes (keys, scissors, rings, and colored threads) and raucous word games, with drink flowing and teasing aplenty. Next comes Easter preparation: making mämmi in birch-bark baskets, quarrels over borrowed baskets, baking, and mishaps—Alma’s basket topples, Mari burns her fingers tasting, then overindulges and falls ill. Good Friday brings a shift to solemnity with hymns, readings, and black clothing for church, even as village chatter jokes about “mämmi-stained” mouths and old beliefs about witches, blending devotion, custom, and comedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Heinonen, Iida, 1869- |
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| Author | Kallio, Niilo, 1890-1968 |
| Title | Halikon hakoniskat 2 |
| Original Publication | Porvoo: WSOY, 1922. |
| Contents | Laskjane -- Pääsjäne -- Helatuarsta -- Helunta. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Folk literature, Finnish |
| Subject | Varsinais-Suomi (Finland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77130 |
| Release Date | Oct 26, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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