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in first by God to give evidence against the dead
man. Only after the animals had had their
say his fellow creatures would be called in as
witnesses.
I asked Turi if there were any stalo in the
neighbourhood, I had heard so much about them in my
childhood, I would give anything to meet one of
those big ogres.
“God forbid,” said Turi uneasily. “You
know the river you are to ford to-morrow is still
called the Stalo river after the old ogre who lived
there in former days with his witch of a wife.
They had only one eye between them, so they
were always quarrelling and fighting who was to
have the eye to see with. They always ate their
own children, but they ate many Lapp children
as well when they had a chance. Stalo said he
liked the Lapp babies better, his own children
tasted too much of sulphur. Once when they
were driving across the lake in a sledge drawn by
twelve wolves they began to quarrel about their
eye as usual and Stalo got so angry that he
knocked a hole in the bottom of the lake and all
the fishes got out of the lake and not one of them
has ever come back again. That is why it is still
called the Siva lake, you will row across it
to-morrow and you will see for yourself that there
is not a single fish left.”
I asked Turi what happened when the Lapps
were taken ill and how they could get on without
seeing the doctor. He said they were very seldom
ill and specially not during the winter except in
very severe winters when it happened not so
seldom that the new-born baby was frozen to
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