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Grey adder with a dark zigzag down its back coiled on a flat pale stone in a patch of sun, dark forest and blue flowers behind it

the adder on the stone

Snakes recur in the charms as both cause and image. The adder is the one genuinely dangerous animal in the Finnish forest.

Basis: The snake in Finnish charm poetry · AI-generated

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Plank bench table in a dim log room with a wooden bowl of water, a knife and a short wooden billet laid out on it, the shutter open on a grey window, nobody presentthe origin recited →Bog pines with bare lower trunks standing in yellow-green moss hummocks around a channel of still black water, mist between the treesthe swamp she comes from →