Viettejä by Fanny Davidsson
"How to speak with the dead" by Sciens is a spiritualist guide written in the early 20th century. It likely outlines practical methods for spirit communication—such as séances, mediumship, and psychical experiments—while discussing safeguards, common illusions and frauds, and the ethical frame for those who wish to explore life beyond the veil. The opening of the provided text presents a series of Finnish vignettes about desire, power, hypocrisy, and fate. It begins
with an artist who signals different lovers with tulips in his window and spirals through clandestine encounters, a moralizing theology student who is seduced by the very “fallen” woman he seeks to save, and a dream that reveals a gleaming swan hiding a white worm—later mirrored by a lover’s quarrel that exposes mutual envy. The scenes shift to a slum where a famed prostitute refuses a kiss and chooses death rather than submission, a lyrical meditation on blonde and black hair as eros and domination, and an allegory in which “lifeweariness” pens the narrator inside a circle of social forces like prejudice and conformity. There is dark comedy and blasphemy in children turning communion wafers into a domino game while a zealot maid panics, and tragedy in a woman who abandons her devoted husband for “freedom” before witnessing a drowned man borne home—her own house—under the moon. The section closes by turning to a blind man’s rough, nostalgic monologue, signaling further voices and social strata to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Davidsson, Fanny, 1877-1962 |
|---|---|
| Title | Viettejä |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Vihtori Kosonen, 1908. |
| Contents | He ja hän -- Siveellisyyssaarna -- Valkoinen mato -- Kunnia -- Kutrien kaipuu -- Ympyrä -- Rippileivät -- Hukuttautunut -- Sokea -- Puotissa -- Lapsen mietteitä -- Suihkualtaalla -- Naamiaisissa -- Näyttelijätär -- Kissa. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Short stories, Finnish |
| Subject | Finnish fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77285 |
| Release Date | Nov 21, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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