Note 848 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER
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W. Mannhardt, Antike Wald- und Feldkulte, p. 342, note. The heathen Swedes appear to have mimicked thunder, perhaps as a rain-charm, by means of large bronze hammers, which they called Thor’s hammers. See Saxo Grammaticus, Historia Danica, lib. xiii. p. 630, ed. P. E. Müller; Olaus Magnus, Historia, iii. 8.