Francine,
Thanks for pointing this out - I'll link it into the Holy Wells Web
on the next update.
It's good to get some more international material - if anyone else knows
of any please tell me!
Cheers,
Katy
On Thu, 18 May 2000 02:55:16 -0400 Francine Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Just to jog us all out of our Indo-European mindsets, here's a
> wonderful article on Votian Water Spirits and veneration. The article
> appears in the Folklore e-journal assembled in Estonia:
>
> http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol12/spirits.htm
>
> The author describes the Votians as "Baltic Finnic people on the verge of
> extinction, the last representatives of which are living in three villages
> in the Kingissepp district of Leningrad oblast." Be sure to click on the
> illustration of a camera to see the accompanying photos and map.
> Francine Nicholson
>
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