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One night's ice at Sohmeronlähde

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Location
Kontiolahti, Finland
The name/names of the sacred site
Sohmeronlähde
Description
According to folklore, wizards have done magic at Sohmeronlähde sacred spring until the 1800s. In the Folklore archives of the Finnish Literature Society there is a note that in 1909 a wooden idol in human shape was found from the spring. (J. Lukkarinen 1909.) http://kulttuuriymparisto.nba.fi/netsovellus/rekisteriportaali/mjreki/read/asp/r_kohde_det1.aspx?KOHDE_ID=276010005 http://www.suomenmuseotonline.fi/fi/kohde/Museoviraston+kuva-arkisto/4878%3A316?pathId=1.356.2786.2801.&itemIndex=11
Date
2014-10-18
Author
Jukka Timonen
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