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GENERAL REMARKS 
way, and another named Kraka prepared a mefs of pottage of 
fuch admirable virtue, that it would have rendered his fon Rollo 
wife and eloquent, if, unfortunately for him, it had not been in¬ 
tercepted and eaten up by his younger brother Eric, who thereby 
obtained the benefit defigned for his elder brother, and afterwards 
got the crown for himfelf. In fliort, there would be no end of 
reciting the various flories which ancient writers have left of the 
magicians, male as well as female, in pad: times. Mr. Leems 
therefore confines his narrative to the prefent Rate of the magic 
art in Lapland. 
The vifible inftrument of magic, as now praftifed in Lapland-, 
is the runic drum ; and the invifible agents employed in this are 
called game flies . The miffionary ffiews the ufe made of each of 
thefe, and gives fomc account of the Noaa'id , or regular bred ma¬ 
gician, together with the juoige, or fong of incantation ufed by 
him, and the method he takes to reftore loft property to its right 
owner. 
The runic drum, which may be confidered as a compendium 
of Lapland paganifm, has the appearance of the head of a com¬ 
mon drum, the wooden frame of which is hung round with brafs 
rings fo clofe together, that they ftrike and rattle upon, the leaft 
touch of the inftrument. Upon the fkin which is ftretched over 
the drum certain characters are painted, reprefenting the Radien, 
or Lapland Jupiter, with the reft of the deities, of whom an ac¬ 
count is given in a preceding feCtion, befides other myftical figures 
of animals, &c. to the number of forty-five fymbols. On fome 
0 drums 
