Note 26 — CANTO II
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It is curious that the Esthonians always regarded the Finns, and the Finns the Lapps, as great sorcerers; each nation attributing special skill in magic to those living north of themselves.—But there is a Finnish ballad ( Kanteletar, iii. 2) in which we read of the sun and moon being stolen by German and Esthonian sorcerers.