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Sohmeronlähde in the moonlight

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Location
Kontiolahti, Finland
The name/names of the sacred site
Sohmeronlähde sacred spring
Description
According to folklore, wizards have done magic at Sohmeronlähde 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. 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
2014-10-08
Author
Jukka Timonen
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