We come now to their magical Darts, which they make of lead, in length about a finger; by these they execute their revenge upon their enemies, and according to the greatness of the injury received, they wound them with cankrous swellings, either in the arms, or legs, which by the extremity of its pain, kills them in three daies time. They shoot these darts to what distance they please, and that so right too, that they seldom miss their aim. _Olaus Magnus_ reports the same in his writings, which I believe is only a transcript of _Zeigler_’s, the words being the same, and without doubt he follows him in this particular as he hath in many others. But I suppose they are both mistaken, and misrender’d them leaden darts, since I can find no person in these times that knows of any such; neither is there any mention made of them in any other writers, or by the common People, who seldom omit such circumstances as these in their relations. But they might perhaps be mistaken in supposing them to be made of lead, by misunderstanding the word _Skott_, which is commonly used for their explanation. For when either man or beast is suddainly taken with a disease, by which their strength fails, and they immediately perish; the common People call this that takes them so _Skott_, that is a dart. This might make _Zeigler_ think to be really some dart, which the inhabitants are wholly ignorant of, and most among us believe these things to be effected by some other means. _Petrus Claudius_ calls it a _Gan_, which they send abroad: he likens it to a flie, but saies it is some little devil, of which the _Finlanders_ in _Norway_ that excell most in this art, keep great numbers in a leathern bag, and dispatch daily some of them abroad. Of these he relates a story, that happened in his time: an Inhabitant of _Helieland_, who is still alive, going towards the mountains in _Norway_ to hunt Bears, came to a cave under the side of a hill, where he found an image rudely shapen, which was the Idoll of some _Finlander_; near this stood a _Ganeska_, or magical satchel: he opened this, and found in it several blewish flies crawling about, which they call _Gans_, or spirits, and are daily sent out by the _Finlanders_ to execute their devilish designs. But he seems to intimate no more by this word _Gan_, then that very thing which endangers mens health, and lives. For he saies that these _Finlanders_ cannot live peaceably, except they let out of their _Ganeska_ or _Gankiid_, which is the satchel, every day one of the _Gans_, that is a fly or devil. But if the _Gan_ can find no man to destroy, after they have sent him out, which they seldom do upon no account at all, then he roves about at a venture, and destroies the first thing he meets with; sometimes they command it out to the mountains, to cleave rocks asunder: however these conjurers will, for very trivial causes, send out their _Gan_ to ruine men. This word _Gan_ signifies no more