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men, and even rufous oxen, were sacrificed, after their expul- 

 sion, in detestation of their dominion. They may have been 

 the parent stock of the Beni Koreish, since the Seyads, who in 

 Asia still pride themselves as descendants of the prophet, stain 

 their beards to a red color ; and, finally, clans are likewise still 

 found scattered inland of the northern African shores, where 

 they are taken to be remnants of the Vandals, who were 

 indeed a branch of the same stem that came round by the west 

 end of the Mediterranean. 



Finnic Scythse, Rauwolf's Trusci, may have passed to Abys- 

 sinia with the first Arabian tribes, and influenced the building 

 of cities of wolf priests, such as was the capital city Tegulet ; 

 for who but a people of northern origin would have thought of 

 wolf gods and lupine priests, particularly in Africa, where no 

 true wolf is as yet proved to exist? for the Ounce of Egyptian 

 Sycopolis, Siout of the Pramestine Mosaic, surely cannot be 

 the insignificant Chakal or Canis Anthus.* 



We have omitted to notice another characteristic that marks 

 the primaeval Finnic tribes, namely, their dwellings, which 

 once were in Europe similar to those of the present Tschutski 

 of Eastern Asia, and of the North American Indians of the 

 same stock. They are figured in Catlin's Travels, and still 



was held by red-haired men, they most assuredly originated from people 

 beyond the Caspian. 



* This worship was well known in the south of Europe, where northern 

 tribes had penetrated. Finns, Etruscans, or Pelasgians, most likely 

 instituted the Hirpi, wolf priests, at Soracte, the Luperci at RCme, the 

 most ancient sacerdotal order in the city. Such, again, were the priests 

 of Latona at Delphi. They existed at Thebes in Egypt, and were in all 

 cases funereal ministers. They had, it is probable, mysteries which were 

 the origin of the power to assume any shape, ascribed to the Budas or 

 blacksmiths of Abyssinia, to the Wehrwolf in Europe and Asia, the 

 Escolar of Portugal, and of Bassa Jaon, the mysterious smith of the 

 Basques, the Crewe, Blotmen, sacrificial priests of the northern nations, 

 who slew human victims; the medicine men, exorcisers of North Amer- 

 ica, the Shamans of Asia, and even the Druid victimizers, wore wolf-skin 

 dresses, or at least girdles of that material. 



