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I know of course cat's origin—the incubation of "greybeard". The cat was gotten on a stove has a girl's nose, a hare's head, A tail of Hiisi's plait of hair, claws of a viper, v. A tail of snake's venom, Feet of cloudberries, the rest of its body is of the wolfs race.

Whelp's genesis is from the wind, dog's origin from chilly wind. v.a pup's from shining of the sun. The old woman Louhiatar, mistress of Pohjola, the whore, v. Untamola's [Ulappala's ] blind one, the wholly blind of Väinölä Slept with her back to the wind—her side to the north-west. The wind made her pregnant, chilly wind made her womb heavy.
 * Why is her womb heavy? She bore a dog in her womb,

A puppy dog below her spleen, an earthly creature in her liver Of one month old, of two months old. She at the end of three months' time Began to throw her litter—to lighten her belly, From her womb she threw a dog—a whelp from under her spleen. Who carried the swaddling clothes—the pup's coarse swaddling bandages?
 * The furious Pineforest Crone carried the swaddling clothes,

Rocked [the pup] in her own linen, dandled it in her lap, Caused the whelp to tread [the ground]—the "woolly tail" to mark the way.