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whether it pleafe him to be worShipt with that kind of Sacrifice in theSe
words, Maijke werro J-abmikf fit te, 6 you Manes what mill yon have, then
they beat the drum,and if the ring falls upon any creature there pictured
they take it for the Sacrifice which the ghcst deSires: they then run thro
his ear, or,as others Say, ty about his horns a woollen black thred. Having
performed the Sacrifice, they Spend all thefltSh upon their o&n uSes; except
a bit of the heart ,and another of the lungs: each of which they divide into
3 parts, and faften them upon as many sticks, which they dip in the blood
of the Sacrifice , And So bury them in a kind of Chest made in the form of
a LaplandiSh Dray, as they do the bones of all other Sacrifices. But of this
I Shall Speak more at large when I come to their funeral rites, where the
Same things are likewife uSed. I Shall only add that theSe rites are still
observed in Lapland by all that are fuperftitioufly given. The Jtiblii, whom
they call Juhlafalktt, as I Said of the ghofts, have no statues, nor images}
the manner of worshipping them is in this Sort. The day before the
festival, which is Chriftmas day, they abstain from all fleSh : and of every
;hing that they eat, they take a litle piece and preferve it very carefully,
which they do likewife the next day. In their feafting, the bits which they
have gathered in thefe two days they put into a chest, made of the bark of
Birch, in the faShion of a Boat with fails and oars, together with fome fat
of the pottage, and hang it upon a tree behind the Hut, about a bows
Shotoft’i Sor the Juhlfi to feaft on , whom they then fuppofe to wander in
troops in the Air, thro woods and mountains; a ceremony not unlike to
the ancient libations to the Genii. But why they do this in a Boat they can
give no reafon : but we may conjetfiure that hereby is intimated how the
knowledg cf Chrifls-birth ( declared by the company of Angels, which as
I have Shewed already was the meaning of thefe fuhlii) was brought by
Christians, who came to them in Eoats. So much of the Laplanders Idolatry
and SuperStition, which remains to this day amongst many of them ,asis
found by daily experience.
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