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twelve men’s strength and one man’s cunning.
The wolf had twelve men’s cunning and one man’s
strength. The bear liked clean fighting. If he
met a man and the man went up to him and
said: “Come let us have a fight, I am not afraid
of you,” the bear only knocked him down and
scrambled away without doing him any harm.
The bear never attacked a woman, all she had
to do was to show him that she was a woman and
not a man.
I asked Turi if he had ever seen the Uldra.
No, he had not, but his wife had seen them
and the children saw them often. But he had
heard them moving about under ground. The
Uldra moved about during night, they slept
during the day for they could not see anything when
it was daylight. Sometimes when it happened
that the Lapps put up their tents just over a
place where the Uldra were living, the Uldra gave
them warning that they must put up their tents
further away. The Uldra were quite friendly as
long as you left them alone. If you disturbed
them they strewed a powder on the moss which
killed the reindeer by the dozen. It had even
happened that they carried away a Lapp baby
and put one of their own babies in the cradle
instead. Their babies had their faces all covered
with black hair and long pointed teeth in their
mouths. Some people said you should beat their
child with a rod of burning birch branches until
its mother could not stand its screaming any
longer and brought you back your own baby and
took away hers. Other people said you should
treat their child as your own, the Uldra mother
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