Juha arrived, finished his prayer, got up, and said, “People, do you know what I’m going to tell you?”

Half the people answered yes, and half the people answered no.

“Good,” Juha answered them.  “Those of you who know the answer tell those who don’t.”

Folklorist Sheila K. Webster-Jain teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park.