Besides these 3 principal Gods they have some petty ones, as the Manes of deceased men, and the _Julii_ troops. They have no particular names for the Ghosts, but call them all _Sitte_: neither do they erect them images as they do to _Thor_ and _Storjunkar_; only they offer them some certain sacrifices. At which time their first business is to enquire the will of the dead, whether it please him to be worshipt with that kind of sacrifice in these words, _Maijke werro Jabmike sitte_, _ô you Manes what will you have_, then they beat the drum, and if the ring falls upon any creature there pictured they take it for the sacrifice which the ghost 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 the flesh upon their own uses; except a bit of the heart, and another of the lungs: each of which they divide into 3 parts, and fasten 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 likewise used. I shall only add that these rites are still observed in _Lapland_ by all that are superstitiously given. The _Juhlii_, whom they call _Juhlafalket_, as I said of the ghosts, have no statues, nor images; the manner of worshipping them is in this sort. The day before the festival, which is Christmas day, they abstain from all flesh: and of every thing that they eat, they take a litle piece and preserve it very carefully, which they do likewise the next day. In their feasting, the bits which they have gathered in these two days they put into a chest, made of the bark of Birch, in the fashion of a Boat with sails and oars, together with some fat of the pottage, and hang it upon a tree behind the Hut, about a bows shot off, for the _Juhlii_ to feast on, whom they then suppose 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 reason: but we may conjecture that hereby is intimated how the knowledg of Christs-birth (declared by the Company of Angels, which as I have shewed already was the meaning of these _Juhlii_) was brought by Christians, who came to them in Boats. So much of the _Laplanders_ Idolatry and Superstition, which remains to this day amongst many of them, as is found by daily experience. CHAP. XI. _Of the magicall Ceremonies of the_ Laplanders.