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I come from a long line of folk healers, yet it was somewhat of a surprise to find a regionally famous Saami Shaman/Noide and a Karelian ‘Noita’ + some well-known Rune Singers in the family tree …
Other than that they were hunters, farmers, small industrialists, shopkeepers and ‘laukkuryssäs’= wandering traders of Karelian origin even though they were called “Russians” by Finns. laukku (bag) + ryssä (Russian).
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