Finnish Facts found on Wikipedia
The pagan Finnish belief about the soul of a human was different from that of most other cultures across the world, in that they believed the human soul to be composed of three different parts: henki, luonto and itse. Each of the three were autonomous beings on their own. Henki (translated as “life”, “breath” or “spirit”, sometimes also referred to as “löyly”) was a person’s life force, which presented itself as breathing, the beating of one’s heart and the warmth…
