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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 303
offered, by pouring it on the ground within the part of the tent
where their cattle were folded. On any change of habitation, an
offering was made of milk to conciliate the favour of the deity
who was the guardian of the place.
They alfo had recourfe to facrifices upon occafion of any epi-
demic diforder difcovering itfelf among them, or any diftemper
breaking out amongft their cattle. Such offerings were ufually
made when they went upon hunting or fifhing parties, or on their
return from them if fuccefsful. Horns, and other parts of the
rein-deer are found in places, fuppofed to have been depofited
there by the Laplanders who have experienced good fortune in the
chace, as offerings to the deity of the place.
Several mountains and a number of rocks were efteemed by
the Laplanders as facred, and held in great veneration. They are
diftin guifhed by the general name of pa/Je-warck, which means holy
places, and were formerly places of facrifice and religious worfhip.
It is to be obferved, that thefe rocks and mountains were remark-
able for the fingularity of their fhape, height, or figure, and con-
fequently excited ideas of awe and reverence in the minds of a
fimple uninformed people, inhabiting a country vifited but fora
fhort feafon by the chearful rays of the fun, and buried during
the greateft part of the year in fnow, with little other light than
what they derived from the pale beams of the moon, or the
brighter corrufcations of an aurora borealis.
Two of thefe mountains are known at this day by the appella-
tion of the greater and the leffer Finne-kirke, given them by the
2 inhabitants
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