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GENERAL REMARKS 
Mutto daft erit daakkaa 
Mailme khetzhjai mannat, 
la don kallcak dai 
Pazhjatallah, dacheke jetzhja lakai hsewanet. 
Accurfed wolf! far hence away! 
Make in thefe woods no longer ftay: 
Fly hence ! and feek earth’s utmoft bounds, 
Or perifli by the hunter’s wounds. 
The method taken by the Noaaid to recover Rolen goods is no 
more than this. He comes into the tent where he has reafon to 
fufpedt the thief is to be found, and pouring a quantity of brandy 
into a dilh, which then reflects the features of any perfon looking 
into it, he makes a number of grimaces over it, and appears to 
confider it with very great attention. After fome length of time 
employed in this way, he takes the fufpe<fted Laplander afide, 
charges him with the fa<ft, declares that he faw his face plainly 
figured to him in the dilh, and threatens to let loofe a fwarm of 
ganic flies upon him, who lhall torment him until he makes ref- 
titution. Thus does the magician work upon the fears and ap- 
prehenfions of the fufpe&ed perfon, who, if he be the real thief, 
never fails to replace whatever he has Rolen with the fame fecrecy 
as he took it away. 
The egregious folly of believing that certain perfons were en¬ 
dowed with fupernatural power, and that they were aftifted by 
invifible fpirits, was univerfal foon after the eftablifhment of 
Chriftianity, 
