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Smooth green-grey stone axe head lying on freshly turned black soil among a few pale pebbles, seen close up

the stone axe in the furrow

Neolithic stone axes turn up in Finnish fields. They were understood as the mark of the thunder, and kept.

Basis: Thunderstones in Finnish folk practice · AI-generated

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