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334 In a thicket of bird-cherry trees, in a dense forest of willows, Underneath a stone, opposite a bramble-covered heap of stones. v.opposite a brushwood-covered hill. A birth took place in consequence, a lizard appeared, "A court-yard's sweepings", "trash of fields", "Ground's sweepings", "sweepings of Manala" [v.. dry land], That dwells under fences, rustles among twig heaps.

There is a short story about lizards in Finland in the ''F.-L. Journ.'', v, p. 163. In another section of the Loitsurunoja (Magic Songs), in a charm for curing the bite of a lizard, this creature is called "Hiisi's eye", the son of Kähhönen, the son of Aijö; it is said to have been cast from copper, produced from copper ore, to be a preparation of a horse-hair bearded individual, to be the hatching of a grey- beard.

The daughter of Pain and Tuoni's son Slept on a ground-fast stone, were both together on a rock When worms were being engendered, when snails were being desired. The girl became pregnant—carried a heavy womb. At last her belly lightened. Therewith 'worms' appeared, snails were brought forth.

Surely I know the raven's origin, I guess the "devourer's" birth, Whence the black bird was gotten, how the raven was reared. The scoundrelly raven, Lempo's bird, the most disgusting bird of air, Was born upon a charcoal hill—reared upon a coaly heath, Gathered from burning brands, bred from charcoal sticks, Its head was made of potsherds, its breastbone from Lempo's spinning-wheel,