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292 GENERAL REMARKS
obferved in this method of cure, namely, that the buck’s finews:
only are to be applied to the legs of the female Laplander, and
thofe of the doe to the male.
Their funerals are conducted with little ceremony. The body,
flightly wrapped up 1a a coarfe cloth, is borne to the grave, at-
tended by a fmall convoy of the family and friends of the de-
ceafed; for whofe entertainment a flight repaft is prepared, which
affords nothing beyond the common fare, except a {mall portion
of metheglin, which is handed about to the company. It was an
ancient cuftom with the Laplanders to bury thofe who excelled
in fhooting with the bow, or with fire-arms, in the ground confe-
crated to the rites performed in honour of their deities. The fe-
pulchre is no other than an old fledge, which is turned bottom
upwards over the fpot where the body lies buried. It was likewife
ufual formerly to raife a heap of {tones over the dead body; but
that practice is now laid afide, and the fledge is at prefent the
only monument. Another circumftance prevailed amongft the
LLaplanders before their entire converfion to Chriftianity, namely,
that they placed an axe with a tinder-box by the fide of the corpfe,
if that of a man; and ifa woman’s, her fciflars and needle; fup-
pofing thefe implements might be of ufe to them in the other
world. They likewife put up a quantity of provifions with the
dead body, and immediately after the burial of one of the family,
they removed their habitation to another fpot. For the firft three
years after the deceafe of a friend or relation, they were accuf-
tomed, from time to time, to dig holes by the fide of the grave,
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