Lapps in Finnish folklore

It is not sure that particularly the Samis' ancestors would have been always pointed to with the Finnish myths' lappalainen ones. The word Lapland may have meant already the place mainly in an outlying interior and the lappalainen anybody which there lived. In the same way the edge of the blade was invited as a flat. Outlying Lapland was perhaps an opposite to central front. The communities may have called the wildernesses those parts of the Lapland which were the established outdoors scouting area of the community. In the written sources of the Middle Ages the general definition or the group with uniform sources of livelihood was "lappalainen" according to researcher in the history Jukka Korpela to the inhabitants of lot countrysides who were not linguistically, culturally in reality.
In Karelian the living groups of people have been named more to the north quite also recently lappalainen even though these are not even Samis. For example the Lydian called lappalainen the south Karelians who live on their north side. The Viena people separated two Laplands, separate. Nowadays they called an area known as Lapland with the name Tulilappi and there Samis live, it was known "tulilappalainen". They, however, called Lapland in Viena and their being located scouting area to the east from Viena and to the north a little. In Finland the Samis have been known also tuhkalappalainen.
In a Finnish mythology the lappalainen have been earlier inhabitant of many areas in the same way as the devils, giants and jatulis. It has been supposed Lappalainens and mythical creatures fled out of the way of the Finnish settlement which spreads into the interior and into the woods to the increasingly outlying areas. Thought on the other hand, the one which had preceded the lappalainen has been considered small the people, big, jatulis. The stories about the jumbo original inhabitants also are meant from the Samis, Scandinavians and others also.
With the help of Lappalainens and of mythical creatures the birth of pile graves, among others has been explained. The stone pile made by Lappalainen has been for example a lapinröykkiö. It has also been thought Lappalainens and mythical creatures left in the aarnihauta when leaving an area, there are its treasures. These may have posted the charm that the treasures would get only certain mark acts up by doing or only at certain time.
Lappalainens were considered to be strong wizards and magicians. The Lappalainen had an ability to bewitch, to enchant and to control people on the magic. The lapinnoita bringing sickness were perhaps most frightening cattle or to take the game. A certain kind pain room was called of lumbago because it was thought that the invisible arrow which a lapinnoita had shot with her bow caused it.
With the direction of the north the one which had lived has been told in addition to Lappalainens the people of the Nordic countries able as well to the magic. These two one mythic nation have also been contained sometimes. However, Pohjola was perhaps located still more far in quite extreme north and it was a place which is more mythic than even Lapland.
According to some stories the lappalainen already were present when the world was created. Mentioned Joukahainen sometimes hated Väinämöinen from as most appreciated mythic heroes Lappalainen and shot this into the sea. The bird laid its egg to the knee of Väinämöinen that drifts in the sea. The bird's eggs were destroyed and the universe was created from them. It is other stories of Väinämöinen also and that of the lappalainen same one from the quarrels. According to some interpretations there could be an idea that the world has been created when two counterforces have taken the connection to this in the background.
In the stories the attitude has also been sometimes more positive; when it was used for a good one, the craftsmanship and magic of the lappalainen also have been appreciated. The magic trick abilities of Lappalainens were both feared and were appreciated. It is told that also the Finns have visited a doctrine of the lappalainen. Some stories about the mixed marriages have been preserved with lappalainen, for example the mythical character Kirmukarmun, the one which had married the lapp woman named Sinivuokko was told.

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