xvii.—The Origin of the Pike.
Liipo [v. Liito] sowed flax by night, Kauko made it grow by day,
From it sprang a tender shoot, a shoot sprang up, the flax grew.
From three directions came a wind to thresh the flax's head.
The wind threshed out the head of flax, scattered the hemp seed.
Thither the wind carries the flax, to the eddy of a holy stream.
There the wind rocked it—the water stretched it out in length.
From it there grew a lovely pike—a "water monster" arose.
xviii.—The Origin of the Cabbage Worm.
O globular, corpulent, black worm, looking like earth,
Thy stock is known: thy father is a Blue Butterfly,
Thy mother a Blue Butterfly, thy sisters Blue Butterflies,
Thy other relative a Blue Butterfly, thou art thyself a Blue Butterfly.
When first thou wast born of thy mother, I listened, I turned here and there,
I heard a rustling in the turf—a buzz from the bottom of a dell,
Rattling thou wast going into withered grass, with jingling sound into tufts of grass.
xix.—The Origin of the Wasp.
A maiden sat on a stone, a woman (kapo) set herself on a rock,
Combs out her hair, arranges her head.
One of the maiden's hairs fell, a hair of the woman broke off.
Thither a wind bore it, to a nameless meadow.
From that a wasp was made, an "evil bird" was dashed,
With a copper quiver on its back—its quiver full of poison.
xx.—The Origin of the Birch.
A maiden stood in a dell, a "fine spun shirt" upon the grass,
Shedding a flood of tears, a tear came polling trickling down
From her ruddy cheek to the ground, to her feet,
Rounder than egg of hazel grouse, more heavy than a thrush's egg.
