CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
SECTION XXV. 
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Of the Magic Art pr act fed hy the Laplanders : Runic Drum, 
Ganic Flies , Juoige, and Noaaid. 
^TT^HE magic art is faid to have been introduced in the North 
by Odin, who brought it with him from the Eaft, and in¬ 
truded the Finni; which people becoming great proficients in 
the art of direding the agency of fpirits, obtained the name in 
thefe countries of Finne-kunjl, that is to fay, the fcience of the 
Fins. The early chronicles of Norway record the extraordinary 
feats of magic performed by their kings Haldan and Gunner; 
how that the firft caufed a banquet to vanifh from before his 
guefls, and that the laft, by his invifible agents, procured fuch in- 
telligence of the fecret pradices of his enemies, as to enable him 
to fruftrate all their defigns. They make mention like wife of 
Eric Windus, a king of Sweden, who could change the wind 
with a turn of his hat; and of Siwald, another Swedifh monarch, 
who had feven fons all equally fkilful in the arts of magic. 
It is unneceflary to mention the great knowledge which the 
female fex have attained to in this fcience: there is fcarcely a 
perfon who has not heard of Lapland witches. A forcerefs pro¬ 
duced a number of infernal fpirits before Hadin, a king of Nor- 
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