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 IQO Some Mythical Tales of the Lapps

of the blood of Hatsjaednc. She taught the people to be always in a hurry, and to do things quickly 'and badly, as they do.^

There is another story told about Attjis-cnc, in which she is introduced as a wicked witch. The story itself is of Russian origin, and probably came to the Lapps from Finland, where it is called " The Girl who came out of the Sea." ^

In an old poem called Peiven Manak, " The Children of the Sun," it is related that the daughters of the Sun and Moon caught and tamed the calves of wild reindeer, but that the daughter of the Moon treated them badly, and at last killed them, so that she had no reindeer left ; where- upon she was taken up to the Moon, whither also her son Askovits, in punishment for his impudence, was sent. The Sun's daughter, on the other hand, kept her reindeer calves, from which there grew a great herd of reindeer. She was the ancestress of the Sun's sons, the giant brood of Kalla-lineage above mentioned.'

In the song of Pis.san Passan parne, " The Son of Pissa Passa," the chief of Sunny-side marries the daughter of the chief of Night-side, and is murdered by a Stalo, who takes away his herd of reindeer and his hidden treasure. His wife, who is pregnant at the time, escapes, and bears a son. The son, when he is grown up, learns his father's fate, and takes vengeance on the Stalo."*

Encounters between Lapps and Stalos are common in Lappish talcs. The Stalo is generally described as a big, strong, well-armed man, often good-natured and chivalrous,

^ Q. & S. Lappiske Eventyr og folkesagn, p. 67 sqq.

'^ Q. & S. p. 70, J. A. Friis, Lappiske, Eventyr og Folkesagn (Christiania, 1871), p. 14; J. C. Poestion, Lapplandische Miirchen (Vienna, 1886), p. 39. Foi the Finnish version see ^'i/ijwc.v/ Kansan Satuja ja Tariiwita (Helsingsfots, 1852), p. 100, *' Merestanousija Neito " ; and Schreck, Finnische Murcfun (Weimar, 1887), p. 74.

'J. A. Friis, Lappish Mythologi {C\\x\s\\:\.xi\^, 1871), p. 169.

^ Donner, pp. 83-89.