then what _Zeigler_ meant by his dart, for the term by which they express its going out is _de Skiuda deris Gan_, that is, he as it were shoots out his _Gan_ like an arrow, for _Skiuda_ is only proper to the shooting out of an arrow. This is the third thing belonging to their magic, which they use as well against one another as strangers; nay sometimes against those that they know are their equals in the art. Of this kind there happened a notable passage betwixt two _Finlanders_, one of which was called _Asbioern Gankonge_, from his great knowledge in the art, the other upon some small difference concerning their skill, or some such trifle, would have destroyed _Asbioern_, but was still prevented by his too powerfull art, till at last finding an opportunity, as _Asbioern_ lay sleeping under a rock, he immediately dispatcht away a _Gan_, that cleft the rock asunder, and tumbled it upon him. This happened in the time of _Petrus Claud._ not long before he wrote his History. Some of the Conjurers are contented only with the power to expell that _Gan_ out of men, or beasts, which others send. This is remarkable among them, that they can hurt no man with their _Gan_, except they first know his parents name. Now all that the _Finlanders_ and _Finlappers_ of _Norway_ effect by their _Gan_, the _Laplanders_ do by a thing they call _Tyre_. This _Tyre_ is a round ball, about the bigness of a wallnut, or small apple, made of the finest hair of a beast, or else of moss, very smooth, and so light that it seems hollow, its colour is a mixture of yellow, green, and ash, but so that the yellow may appear most. I had one of these given me by M^r _John Otto Silverstroem_, Warden of the Colledge belonging to the metals, and Master of the Mines at _Saltzburg_ and _Frahlune_. This is the figure of it. [Illustration] This _Tyre_ they say is quickened and moved by a particular art; it is sold by the _Laplanders_, so that he that buies it may hurt whom he pleases with it. They do perswade themselves, and others, that by the _Tyre_ they can send, either Serpents, Toads, Mice, or what they please into any man, to make his torment the greater. It goes like a whirlewind, and as swift as an arrow, and destroies the first man, or beast, that it lights on, so that it often mistakes. Of these we have too many instances in this time, which are too long to insert here: having therefore done with all, or at least the chiefest matters concerning their sacred, and superstitious rites, or worship; we proceed to other affairs. CHAP. XII. _Of the Government of the_ Laplanders.