GENERAL REMARKS 
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chiefly offered by the Laplanders to their gods. Libations fome- 
times were made with milk and whey; and occafionally they alfo 
made offerings of cheefe. 
The ceremonies ufed by them in the performance of this wor- 
fhip, were manifold and various, and all thought to be indifpen- 
fably neceffary. When they facrificed an animal, fometimes the 
whole was offered up ; at other times only a particular part. It 
alfo fometimes happened, that the animal was flain and the whole 
eaten by themfelves, in which cafe the bones were made an offer¬ 
ing to the deity of the place, and were left on the Ipot that the 
deity might clothe them with flefh, and reftore life to the vidlim. 
Staves were fprinkled with the blood of the vi&im, and left on 
the fpot; and if the place of facrifice was near a lake or river, the 
blood was mingled with its waters. 
When they had chanced to take a bear, it was partly dreffed 
and eaten, and the liver referved and confecrated as a burnt-of¬ 
fering. 
To conciliate the favour of their deities for their children, pre- 
Lents were made to the gods of different kinds. Whilft the infant 
was yet unborn, they facrified a fheep or deer ; in the moment of 
its birth a dog was deftroyed in honour of the deity, by burying it 
alive ; and when the child was at the bread;, fome other animal 
was killed for the fame purpofe. 
Libations of brandy were made to the /ares or houfehold gods, 
whofe abode was fuppofed to be under the fire place. The beift- 
ings of a cow, if flowing from the firfi: time of her calving, was 
offered, 
