If you had no horse and wanted to travel rapidly, you could make a horse for yourself out of bits of bark and old sticks by uttering over them certain magical words.

But this was not all.

Beings of intellect, men and women, whole armies of men, in fact, might be created in a moment by the utterance of these mystical words.

There is the real subject of the "Kalevala." I told you that the epic is not like anything else in European literature and not like anything else in the world as to the subject.

But this is not the case as regards the verse.