- Genre
- Recorded place narratives
- Source status
- Editorial discussion of recorded accounts
- Motifs
- fishing, stone name, abundance, family memory
A stone that provides like a cow
These Neris accounts explain Karvutė, meaning a little cow, through plentiful fish: a productive fishing place is compared with a cow giving milk. The records explain a local name and recall work; they do not say that an animal turned to stone.
Three records, different perspectives
In no. 166, Irena Špak-Satkievič, aged 76, of Pugainiai explains the name. In no. 167, Vytautas Klimas, aged 74, of Karageliškės gives a similar comparison. In no. 168, Pranciška Luskevičiūtė-Klimienė, aged 78, of the same village recalls her father's fishing beside the stone. Ida Stankevičiūtė recorded all three in 2005. They appeared in Tautosakos darbai XXXIII in 2007, p. 233.
The first two records allow comparison of the name's explanation; the third supplies its working context. Its inclusion in a folklore publication does not turn it into a separate supernatural narrative.
Name forms and neighbouring stones
The publication includes the forms Karowka and Krovka. They are useful search variants alongside the Lithuanian name Karvutė. A different spelling does not by itself identify a different object.
The editorial note also mentions nearby Povilėlis Stone. Historical references to that neighbour should not be transferred to Karvutė: adjacent features have separate documentary histories.
What the account establishes
The source places Karvutė in a bend of the Neris near the Apskrita and Pugainiai area. This is a reference within local memory, not confirmation of a current access point or fishing location.
As a reading exercise, distinguish the name, its explanation, a family recollection and the editors' geographical note. They provide different kinds of evidence even when printed together.
