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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 311
money) has recourfe to another Noaaid, and another. Now, as
every confultation is followed by a fat facrifice, at which the glut-
tonous foothfayer prefides as butcher and principal gueft, it hap-
pens that the: poor Laplander finds himfelf fuddenly reduced to
want, his ftock of cattle being wafted in riotous fcenes of fuper-
f{titious infatuation.
The ganic flies are evil fpirits entirely under the direction of the
Noaaid, and ready at all times to execute his orders: they have
been delivered over to him by the Noaaid his father, who received
them from his, and fo on through a long feries of magicians.
Thefe ganic flies are invifible to all but the magician, who keeps.
them fhut up in a box until he has occafion for their fervices.
The jucige, or fong of incantation, is ufed by the Noaaid whilft
in the exercife of his magical fun@ion. To fay it is fung, is to
give an imperfect idea of the magician’s manner of delivering it,
which he does in the moft hideous kind of yelling that can be
conceived. It is alfo frequently employed by thofe who are not
profeffed magicians; for the juoige is fuppofed to have the power
to drive away the wolf, and is confidered asa protection for the
herd. Indeed, if the wolf be within hearing when they fing if,
it is no wonder that he fhould be frighted away by the noife.
The words of this fong are very fimple; we here prefent them to
the reader, accompanied with an exact tranflation :
Kumpi don ednak vahag lek dakkam
Tk fhjat kalka dam packeft orrot
Mutto
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