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The Genre of Trolls - Doria

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tants <strong>of</strong> Vörå by representatives <strong>of</strong> the Free Church in 1913 (Dahlbacka<br />

1987: 134; Näsman 1979: 86; Åkerblom 1963: 161). Another revival, headed by<br />

some former Laestadians, reached Vörå in 1908, and the year after Pentecostalism<br />

was introduced. <strong>The</strong> ecstatic features <strong>of</strong> the latter movement and<br />

the glossolalia practised by it clearly distinguished it from previous revivals<br />

(Näsman 1979: 135, 140).<br />

With this account <strong>of</strong> the religious context <strong>of</strong> the parish <strong>of</strong> Vörå I have<br />

attempted to give a background to the investigation <strong>of</strong> intertextual relationships<br />

between folklore and the Bible in chapters 4 and 5, by demonstrating<br />

the place <strong>of</strong> religion in the life <strong>of</strong> the community, and the ways in<br />

which the parishioners came into contact with the Christian message.<br />

Context 85

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