Kivutar
Sign in to saveKivutar (), Kiputyttö () or Vammatar () is a spirit or goddess in Finnish mythology who is asked take the pains and injuries of humans to herself. She lives on Kipumäki/Kipuvaara ("Pain Hill") or Kipuvuori ("Pain Mountain"), and is often called a maiden of the underworld (Tuonen neito).
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Kivutar (), Kiputyttö () or Vammatar () is a spirit or goddess in Finnish mythology who is asked take the pains and injuries of humans to herself. She lives on Kipumäki/Kipuvaara ("Pain Hill") or Kipuvuori ("Pain Mountain"), and is often called a maiden of the underworld (Tuonen neito).
She is the remover of illnesses and ruler of pain who takes pains back to where they originate from.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kivutar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.