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argued with his wife and then separated. Later that ex-wife get pregnant from a snake,
and later gave birth to some snakes. In one another case the snake had gone inside of a
woman(and they used a lappish healer to try to get it out).
Snakes had also a strong part of shamanism, but I don't know what really was the
function of shamans snake-shape belongings(??instruments??). Finnish folkloristics seem
to believe that the snake was for the shamans protection.
We had few cases where a snake's head was used by magical meanings.
Sixthly, in 1732 court was dealing with a case, where Lauri Heikinpoika Tervo accused
his neighbor "of sending a bird with fire on its head (nose)" to burn his house, which
burned. Due to losses of protocols, we don't know how the case was handled, but I'm
sure the court did not find neighbor guilty. Birds have been known to used to carry fire in
saami tradition (says finnish folklorist Aune Nystrom).
Seventhly, we have found one case where a woman gave birth to some frogs, and one
case where a frog was put in a box and buried inside of a church. The box was just like
those boxes they used with human bodies.
Eigth, we have a case where they used a fish to heal sick person. The idea was that the
"Grande mal" (falling sickness) would be moved from people to fish. So they did it, but
unfortunately one innocent person touched the fish and got himself sick. And of course
the sickness was grande mal.
Ninth, I have a strong feeling, that finnish courts did not tried to found out if the accused
had animal helper or not. The law mentioned nothing about animal imps or spirituals, so
they were not needed as evidence. Maleficium was maleficium and it could be proofed
without any animal helpers or spirits.
10th According the old folk tradition the bear will not harm the cattle if one takes a blind
puppy dog and buries it with some rites in the land on area, where the bear lives. But I
have no evidence that this has ever been done.
11th In Finland was believed, that milking others cow, would steal not only the milk but
the further milk lucky too. I think this believe is common in whole Scandinavia.
12th A bear could be sent to harm neighbour's cattle. But at least in one case (1746)
shows, that it could also to sent back to harm the original witch.
13th I have no reason to believe that the animal (exept the bear or wolf sended to do
harm) were real ones. If it was so that the helpers were real pets, why they did not
execute the pets too?
I think that the judges has sent the animals to death as they did with cases where humans
had sexual intercourse with animal. They executed both! One reason to not to do so
could be, that the animal was not "guilty" for anything because it could not differ the
right and the wrong from each other. But so did the raped animal neither.
14th The worms. At least in one case the witch used worms to destroy a pig. He used
some magical technique and the victims pig get "full of worms" as they found out when
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