1) Character in the Kalevala 2) Fictional shapeshifter
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Louhi (ˈlouɦi) is a queen of the land known as Pohjola in Finnish, Karelian and Lappish mythology. ==In mythology== Louhi is described as a powerful witch with the ability to change shape and weave mighty enchantments. She is also the main opponent of Väinämöinen and his group in the battle for the magical artifact Sampo in the Kalevala. She ...
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(from the article `sampo`) ...pillar or some similar support holding up the vault of heaven. In a cycle of songs, referred to by scholars as the sampo-epic, the sampo is forged ... [3 related articles]
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In Finnish mythology, Louhi was a magic-working ice giantess, Princess of Pohjola. When suitors came to marry her daughter, she set them impossible tasks and if these tasks were overcome she had her army of frost giants kill them.
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The Louhi was a Finnish minelayer of 640 tons displacement launched in 1917 as the Voin. The Louhi had a top speed of 11 knots and carried a complement of 46. She was armed with two 3-inch guns; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and three machine-guns and carried 140 mines.
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a sorceress, the mistress of Pohjola and an enemy of the Finns, eventually defeated by Vainamoinen.
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