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5«> Of the magicall Ceremonies
publicly as heretofore. Some of them account this only unlawful, and
exclude themSelves out of the number of thoSe, which uSe it, thinking the other
uSesofthe drum to confist chiefly in doing good.But however thismifchievous
Art continues still too much among them. Several inhabitants oS Kiema in
Lapland were apprehended in the year 1671, with drums, Sor this purpofe
So large , that they could not be removed from thence, bur were burnt in
the place. Among thofe Laplanders there was qpe four Score years of age,
that confeffed he was bred up in this art from his childhood, who in 1670
upon Some quarrell about a pair of mittens , caufed a Boar of Kiema to
be drowned in a Cataraft, for which he was condemned to die, and in order
to thac was to be carried in chains to the next town in Bothnia, but in the
journy he contrived fo by his art, that on a fuddain ,tho he Teemed well,
and lusty, he died on the Sledge, which he had often foretold he Would
Sooner do, then fall into the Executioners hands. As to the ceremonies
ufed in this particular, either in their words, gefture, or any other thing,
I ca* give no account, finding none in thofe writings, from whence I
collected the reft. The reafon for this, I SuppoSe, is, becauSe they themfelves
keep this fecret, as the great myftery in their art; or that no one would
enquire into them , leaft they Should be thought guilty of {his damnable fin.
Having treated largely of the drum, we come to the other parts of this
art, to which alfo belong proper forts of inftruments: the first is a cord
tied with knots for the raising of wind. They ,as Zeigltrs relates it, tye
three magical knots in this cord; when they untie the fust, there blows
a favorable gale of wind j when the Second, a brisket; when the third, the
Sea and wind grow mighty stormy, and tempestuous. This, that we have
reported concerning the Laplanders, is by OlausMagnus , and justly,
related of the Finlanders, who border on the Sea, and fell winds to thofe
Merchants that trafic with them, when they are at any time detained by a
contrary one. The manner is thus, they delivera fmall rope with three
knots upon it, with this caution, that when they loofe the first, they
lhall have a good wind, if the Second, a stronger, iS the third, Such a
storm will ariSe, that they can neither See how todire&the Ship, and avoid
rocks, or So mueh as stand upon the decks, or handle the tackling. No other
Writers mention this concerning the Laplanders, and I am apt not to
think it at all probable, Since they live in an inland Country, bordering
no where upon the Sea. Wherefore this properly belongs to the Finlappirs
in Norway. Now thofe that are skilled in this art, have command chiefly
over the winds that blew at their birth; So that this wind obeys principally
one man, that another, as if they obtained this power when they first
received their breath; now as this belongs chiefly to the Finlappers and
Finlanders of Norway, fo doth the stopping of the courfe of Ships, which
is altogether of the fane nature. This is alfo attributed to the Laplanders,
who according to the different aSfetftion they have for Merchants, make
the Sea either calmer, or more tempestuous.
We come now to their magical Darts, which they make of lead, in length
about a finger; by theSe they execute their revenge upon their enemies,
and according to the greatneSs of the injury received, they wound them
with cankrous Swellings , either in the arms, or legs, which by the
extremity of its pain, kills them in three daies time. They Shoot theSe darts
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