[2] There is no exact information in Pöyry's life as to when she started divination and medicine, but such activities were locally considered to be very suspicious and dangerous at the time.
[2] On 17 September 1858, the Suometar newspaper wrote about an event where it was mentioned that a person had appeared in the middle of the keep, who claimed to know everything and to whom the young girls went to talk to about their longings.
However, Pöyry didn't end up in court because of her treatments, but because, on one holy day, in the aisles of Ristiina's church, in the middle of the priest's sermon, she used cards to prophesy to those sitting next to her.
Pöyry is said to have read spells in the dim light of the smoker or in the kitchen of the house, using them for example in connection with rye, butter and eggs.
At the age of 42, she married Hesekiel Hiski Hermanninpoika Torniainen, the coachman's brother from the village of Liikala in Ristiina, in 1860.