The main centres of influence were Huittinen and Vampula, which were considered the "mother parishes" of the movement, but Kartanoism was also present in at least Kangasniemi, Lavia, Sippola and Juupajoki.
She stayed in Inkerinmaa for long periods of time, where the local preacher Voldemar Kurki introduced her to the Russian skoptsy - "castrater" and khlysts - "whipper" communities.
They included long kneeling prayers, preferably with the face pressed into the floor, and praying in such a loud voice "that the devil would flee away".
The prayer meetings would often end in ecstatic experiences, where participants banged their heads and hands on the floor, shouted and wailed, had visions, spoke in tongues and prophesied.
Kartanoism received negative publicity as a result of a trail in 1935 regarding an incident in which a number of children from a nearby village where forced to work for long hours without food.