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462 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS,
their whole manner of facrificing, the myfteries of the magic art, and the Jusige, ’that is,
the art or manner of religioufly finging magic hymns. Thefe Noaaide-Gadze, who
were, as juft mentioned, afliftants and coadjutors of the Noaaid, or magician, and whom,
for the difpatch of bufinefs, he could not do without, with regard to the Laplanders,
were feparated into two claffes: the one forming Buorre-Gadze, that is, good fociety 5
the other, Borram-Gadze, that is, gluttonous, or bad company. Thofe who were of
the Buorre-Gadze, or good fociety, dedicated their labours and offices to the Noaaid, or
magician, in curing diftempers, in expelling flies, if any were ftung or injured by them,
and to other laudable and good works of this nature.
Others were called Perkel-Gadze, or diabolical fociety, for the popes of affifting
the Noaaid to injure others, and by the magic art deftroy both men and cattle, both as
authors and as advifers. ‘hey called the fame Borram-Gadze a gluttonous and malig-
nant fociety, becaufe they were believed to be folely intent in calamities of every kind,
and in producing and effeGting mifchiefs, like a confuming fire. Vuokko is alfo well
known to many of the Laplanders, and defcribed asa bad demon, appearing in the form
of a hugeand foul bird, from which the Neaaid, or magician, is faid to receive thofe in-
famous and noxious flies, the caufe and means of fo many bad effects.
Yo thefe I fhall add fuch as the Laplanders have not, as it appears to me plainly,
counted among the number of their gods, nor deigned worthy of the honour of religious
worfhip and facrifices, yet influenced by fome fuperftition in their behalf; fuch as Srallo,
a prodigy equally known to the Laplanders, but feldom appearing ; in fable vet, but
elegant attire, holding in his hand a ftick, and provoking to conteft any one he meets,
Concerning this prodigy I fhall relate what follows, but afk pardon from the reader
for a very ridiculous narration. They relate that the faid Simon Kices, whom we men-
tioned before, had killed ata time a Sva/lo, and fome time after that he had killed another,
in attempting to revenge the death of his affociate that he had flain, having ufed this
itratazem : he made an aperture through the door of his houfe (the houfe and door I
faw), through which he way-laid and fhot him when pafling, and he remembered that
the Stallo was killed and privately buried by his father ; and that the fpoils taken from
the enemy were, namely, a ftick, in which was a dagger, and a fabre, out of which he
made knives for his fon Peter, and fon-in-law Nicholas Kices, The authority of this
ftory refts on them, the fons of Simon Kices, as alfo feveral Laplanders from Porfanger,
from whom I relate it, and leave it to be examined by the reader, But concerning
Stallo, of whom mention is made fo often among the Laplanders, what opinion to form
ca it; I confefs myfelf at a lofs to fay, and leave it to the judicious reader to determine,
‘The Laplanders feign alfo a certain Zhiokkufh, or caufe of fadden illnefs; hence fre-
quently among them, when any one is feized with a fudden diforder, they fay, Zhiokkufh
fuu paxhyi, that is, the Zhiokkufh has {truck him.
‘There are befides a kind of fpeétres, in Norwegian Udbser, but in Lapland called
Epparis, or Shjort. This kind of fpeétre is believed to wander up and. down where any
infant who had not received a name had been flain. It is feigned to cry out until the
infant has a name given him, then to vanifh.
Lhe Laplanders adopt an opinion, in common ufually with the Norwegians, concern-
ing certain fubterraneous beings, commonly called Goveiter, fancying to themfelves, I
know not how, certain inhabitants who live under ‘ground. Zhiakkalaggak are ac-
counted by many as {pectres, ufually appearing in the fhape of infant children; but,
as a certain Lap ander has aflured me (by name Henry Sarrefon, the grandfather of An-
drew Porfanger, who, in 1758, fent from the fchool at Drontheim to the college, now
rector of the church which is appropriated to the hofpital of the faid town, a pious and
honett
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