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Old Belief
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Slender wooden arrow with a bound iron point lying diagonally across a folded white linen cloth on a scrubbed pale table, an empty clay bowl beside it

the arrow that caused it

The charms treat injury as something sent. The singer names the sender in order to send it back.

Basis: The origin-charm structure in the Finnish corpus · AI-generated

More of this creature

Wide open bog of rust-red sedge with black pools and dead bleached trees, low hills and a lake beyond, no path across itthe swamp beyond the field →Heavy old book bound in worn brown leather over wooden boards, lying closed on a pale plank table with brass corners and clasps, a lit candle standing behind it in the darkthe closed book →