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302 GENERAL REMARKS
chiefly offered by the Laplanders to their gods. Libations fome-
times were made with milk and whey; and occafionally they alfo
made offerings of cheefe.
The ceremonies ufed by them in the performance of this wor-
fhip, were manifold and various, and all thought to be indifpen-
fably neceflary. When they facrificed an animal, fometimes the
whole was offered up ; at other times only a particular part. It
alfo fometimes happened, that the animal was flain and the whole
eaten by themfelves, in which cafe the bones were made an offer-
ing to the deity of the place, and were left on the fpot that the
deity might clothe them with flefh, and reftore life to the victim.
Staves were fprinkled with the blood of the victim, and left on
the fpot; and if the place of facrifice was near a lake or river, the
blood was mingled with its waters.
When they had chanced to take a bear, it was partly dreffed
and eaten, and the liver referved and confecrated as a burnt-of-
fering.
To conciliate the favour of their deities for their children, pre-
fents were made to the gods of different kinds. Whilft the infant
was yet unborn, they facrified a fheep or deer ; in the moment of
its birth a dog was deftroyed in honour of the deity, by burying it
alive; and when the ¢hild was at the breaft, fome other animal
was killed for the fame purpofe.
Libations of brandy were made to the /ares or houfehold gods,
whofe abode was fuppofed to be under the fire place. The beift-
ings of a cow, if flowing from the firft time of her calving, was
oftered,
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