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Old Belief
← Ahti
Wide hole of black open water broken through thick lake ice, snow and a frozen reed hummock around it, grey winter shore beyond

the water at the edge of ice

Winter fishing put people on the ice above a householder they could not see, at the season when the water is least forgiving.

Basis: Ice fishing in the Finnish tradition · AI-generated

More of this creature

Pale fishing net hung to dry over a rack of lashed poles on a stony lakeshore under a flat grey skythe net drying on poles →Single char with olive back and red-edged fins lying on a flat pale shoreline stone beside dark lake waterthe first fish returned →