Magic at the crossroads. Blood magic. Animal sacrifices. Visits to the cemetery. The use of bodily fluids in spells. This is not about Satanism, voodoo or black mass rituals. This is about traditional Western Finnish love spells.

Western Finland's Love Spells brings together spells for lovemaking, weddings, courtship, and family life that have been used in Western Finland in the past. At the same time, it offers a unique insight into a folk tradition that has been overshadowed by its eastern counterparts.

Juha Jyrkäs (b. 1981) is a Rauma-born writer-musician who is known for his fantasy, science fiction, and Kalevala-based poetry. In music, he is known as the lyricist of Korpiklaani and a pioneer of kantele metal. This is his first non-fiction book.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Before marriage

Marriage date inquiries
Marriage date inquiry with plum stones
Marriage date inquiry from the hand
Inquiry about the date of marriage from the pig
Spouse inquiries
Spouse's inquiry at a sauna wedding
Spouse inquiry from a ladybug
Spouse's inquiry from the bar
Finding out about your spouse
Wishing a groom during the wedding cry
Seeing your future spouse from the sky by inquiring
Seeing your future spouse in a dream
Seeing your future spouse as a scoundrel
Seeing your future spouse on Midsummer's Eve
Ensuring your spouse
Securing a spouse with hay and coins
Inquiry into the habits of a future spouse

Towards marriage

Midsummer love spells
Midsummer magic
To get close to your spouse
How to get your spouse to follow you
Married near the churchyard trees
Get close to your spouse with the help of mouse eyes
Lovemaking by feeding and watering
Lovemaking with horse milk
Buying love with a sugar cube and blood
Lovemaking with beer and blood
Lovemaking with bat blood
Lovemaking with a piece of skirt and coffee
Horny cake
Love cake
Lovemaking with menstrual blood
The Maiden's Bathing
Men's lovemaking spells
Lovemaking with a shirt
Lovemaking with a bat
Lovemaking with a frog

In marriage

Tips for maintaining a marriage
A man is good to his wife
Finding out about a fiancé's betrayal
The man stays at home.

The collapse of a marriage or engagement

Get out of the love zone
How can a man break free from a love spell?
Cooling spells
Cooling down with shit and booze
Cooling with clothing
Cooling with stones
Restoring a woman's honor
Restoring a woman's marital happiness and honor