CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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money) has recourfe to another Noaaid, and another. Now, as 
every confultation is followed by a fat facrifice, at which the glut¬ 
tonous foothfayer prefides as butcher and principal gueft, it hap¬ 
pens that the poor Laplander finds himfelf fuddenly reduced to 
want, his flock of cattle being wafted in riotous fcenes of fuper- 
ftitious infatuation. 
The game JUes are evil fpirits entirely under the direction of the 
Noaaid, and ready at all times to execute his orders: they have 
been delivered over to him by the Noaaid his father, who received 
them from his, and fo on through a long feries of magicians. 
Thefe gallic flies are invifible to all but the magician, who keeps 
them fliut up in a box until he has occafion for their fervices. 
The juo/ge, or fong of incantation, is ufed by the Noaaid whilft 
in the exercife of his magical function. To fay it is fung, is to 
give an imperfedl idea of the magician’s manner of delivering it, 
which he does in the moft hideous kind of yelling that can be 
conceived. It is alfo frequently employed by thofe who are not 
profeffed magicians; for the juoige is fuppofed to have the power 
to drive away the wolf, and is confidercd as a protection for the 
herd. Indeed, if the w T olf be within hearing when they fing it, 
it is no wonder that he fliould be frighted away by the noife. 
The words of this fong are very fimple ; we here prefent them to 
the reader, accompanied with an exadt tranflation : 
Kumpi don ednak vahag lek dakkani 
Ik fhjat kalka dam packeft orrot 
Mutto 
