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haltiaAmong the Balto-Finnic peoples, a guardian spirit of the household. In Finland it was the spirit of the first person to claim a site as property. Identical in appearance to this original owner, the haltia presided over the household and served as a moral force to discourage misbehavior. A haltia could only be transported to a new home by carrying fire or ashes from the old one. On farms there were barn-spirits to watch over the animals, a mill-spirit to keep the miller awake, and a threshing-house spirit to supervise the drying of the grain. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| decision making in the Balkans, with brief forays into Somalia and Halti, during the Bush Sr. 12) The most striking examples, however, come from Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men (1935), which describes the practices of hoodoo in New Orleans, and her study of vodun in Halti in Tell My Horse (1938). We raced the event because we were being chased constantly by Halti (Finland) and Atlas Snowshoe/Rubicon. |
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