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would then feel grateful to you and give you back
your child. As Turi spoke a lively discussion
which of the two methods was the best was going
on amongst the women hugging their own babies
with uneasy eyes. The wolf was the worst enemy
of the Lapps. He dared not attack a herd of
reindeer, he stood quite still to let the wind carry
his smell to them. As soon as the reindeer smelt
the wolf they all dispersed in fear, then the wolf
came up and killed them one by one, often a
dozen in a single night. God had created all the
animals except the wolf, who was begotten by
the devil. If a man had the blood of another
man upon him the devil often turned him into a
wolf if he had not confessed his sin. The wolf
could put to sleep the Lapps who were watching
the herd at night simply by looking at them
through the darkness with his glowing eyes.
You could not kill a wolf with an ordinary bullet
unless you had carried it in your pocket on two
Sundays in church. The best way was to
overtake him on your skis on the soft snow and hit
him with your staff on the top of his nose. He
would then roll over and die at once. Turi
himself had killed dozens of wolves in this way, only
once had he missed his blow and the wolf had
bitten him in the leg, he showed me the ugly scar
as he spoke. Last winter a Lapp had been bitten
by a wolf just as he was rolling over to die, the
Lapp had lost so much blood that he had fallen
asleep in the snow, they had found him the
following day frozen to death by the side of the
dead wolf. Then there was the wolverine who
springs to the throat of the reindeer just by the
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