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48o ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
‘They add that the fons receive them from their wizard parents, and that the evil fpirit,
on the failure of thefe furnifhes new ones, under the appearance of a horrid and deform-
ed bird. ‘They mention too, that they are kept ina certain box commonly called Gan-
Efe, to be forth-ecoming, equally to injure man and bealt, at a feafonable moment, and
that the manner of exercifing this execrable art, confifts chiefly in this, that when
the wizard orders his flies to fly out, from his box, an injury is done to this or that
enemy, by whom he contends an injury has been done at one time or other to him, yet
with this due caution, that like be done for like, and that the revenge does not extend a
nail’s breadth beyond the injury received. ‘The flies, on receiving the order, inflantly
fly out, and difcharging their orders, return again each into his own box.
Should a fwelling appear, not unlike the figure of a flounder, (called in the Nor-
wegian Fiynder) between the flefh and fkin as fomething alive, moving this way and
that, it is a fign of the hurt received from the contac of the flies. Such a fymptom
was formerly not unufual among the Laplanders. Befides, did the belly fwell, did
blood flow from the mouth and nofe, fudden death fucceeding, no doubt there
remained but that the man, labouring under fuch fymptoms, was feized by poifoned
flies. He who was fo infected, and was ignorant of the magic art, fo as not to be
able to recall his former health, implored afliftance trom another, who was thought
able to repel the malady by the fame means it was brought on. ‘There was a magi-
cian, who was {truck by the fly of another, is faid to have cured himfelf. ‘The de.
gree of belief attached to thefe {tories, is great with the Laplanders, from whofe mouth
1 relate what I have heard from them.
A certain writer mentions that the Laplanders take vengeance on their enemies by
{mall fhort leaden arrows, which, infected with poifon, they fhoot very far bringing
various and dangerous maladies on them by this means, which turn in the arms and legs,
into cancers and other {uch ills.
The Juoigen fignifiesfong, which fome of the Laplanders ufually fing by intervals,
but fo confufed and broken that it bears more likenefs to a howling than to an articu-
jate voice. ‘There are Laplanders, who innocently and folely for amufement fing their
Juoigen, thefe are named Maargos; but the Juoigen of others is altogether fupertfti-
tious, thinking they can keep off the wolves from molefting the cattle, by fuch a fong,
and that they can drive them away altogether, which can be gathered from the following
verfe, they are ufed now and thento fing. Kumpi! don ednak vahag lek dakkam, Fc.
Wolf begone, author of many ills, here you fhall no longer ftay: hence begone to the
extreme parts of the world, or mean time you fhall be transfixed with arrows, or you
fhall perifh by fome other means. Some magicians fing as well in the exercife
of their art as out of it; others never. Thefe are called Judakas and Juraak in
common.
The magician when called on to recover things ftolen from their owners, is faid
to proceed in this manner. He poured brandy into a bowl; and infpected the
liquor, fhewing the face of the perfon who looked into it, calling by name one or ano-
ther whom he fulpeéted of the theft. And as the liquor returned the countenance asa
mirror, the very cunning juggler pretended that he faw the image of the thief in the
liquor, and openly charged him with the theft, adding threats that he himfelf, unlets
he returned the property ftolen, would knock out his eye, or maim {ome member of his
body. On which the thief, dreading the effects, left he fhould be deprived of an eye,
or mutilated in any of his limbs, reftored what he had {tolen without delay to his matter.
‘The magician intent on the liquid, ufually repeated fome folemn hymn.
Thole
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