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90 THE THUNDERWEAPON
to aid fermentation : Gotland : Antiqv. Tidsskrift, 1852-4,
p. 262.
f. Acts as a protection against lightning: MONTELIUS,
Sveriges forntid, p. 160 (Gotland) ; therefore immured in the
house : MONTELIUS, loc. cit. Isles off Esthonia : RUSSWURM,
Eibofolke, II. p. 249.—Flint dagger which according to the in-
formation given about its discovery must have been immured in
the wall of a church in Skane: STOBHiUS, Opera (Dantisci, 1753),
p. 156, pl. 6.
g. Acts as a protection against trolls: NlCOLOVlUS, Folk-
livet i Skytts hdrad, p. 180; Refteled (Smaland), see a.
h. Acts as a protection against fire; hence used at the
burning of “ svedjeland,” i.e. at the clearing of forests by fire:
Jbnkbping district: MONTELIUS, Sveriges forntid, p. 161 ;
G. A. Alden, I Getapulien (i.e. Smaland), p. 144, cited by
FEILBERG, Jysk ordbog, under stenredskab ; Sbdra Tjust division
(Smaland, see a).—If you ride three times “ against the sun ”
round a fire, especially a forest fire, with a thunder-arrow, the
fire will not spread : district of Nyland : Nyland, IV. p. 106.
i. Attracts good luck ; therefore used as a sinker on fishing-
nets; a peasant in Vermland thought he had observed “ that the
fish came with greater readiness into those nets for which stone
axes were used assinkers”: MONTELIUS, Sveriges forntid, p. 161.
k. Used as an amulet against illness ; pierced axe fastened
round the neck of a child as a remedy for “ altan ” (i.e. ague) :
IdAZELIUS, Afbildningar af Nordiska Museet, Smaland, pl. II,
No. 41. Used as a cure for toothache (by touch) and other com-
plaints; butter, melted with a heated “ thunder-arrow,” is eaten or
smeared on the sore place ; portions of the “ thunder-arrow ” are
pounded and taken: district of Nyland : Nyland, IV. p. 107. The
patients drank milk in which a stone axe had lain : Edsberg
(see a).
l. Hung over the stalls of the horses as a protection against
the nightmare : Bahus district. [Communicated by Dr N. E.
Hammarstedt, Stockholm.]
m. The thunderstone turns quite red when there is a storm
in the air : islands off Esthonia : RUSSWURM, Eibofolke, II. p. 249.
to aid fermentation : Gotland : Antiqv. Tidsskrift, 1852-4,
p. 262.
f. Acts as a protection against lightning: MONTELIUS,
Sveriges forntid, p. 160 (Gotland) ; therefore immured in the
house : MONTELIUS, loc. cit. Isles off Esthonia : RUSSWURM,
Eibofolke, II. p. 249.—Flint dagger which according to the in-
formation given about its discovery must have been immured in
the wall of a church in Skane: STOBHiUS, Opera (Dantisci, 1753),
p. 156, pl. 6.
g. Acts as a protection against trolls: NlCOLOVlUS, Folk-
livet i Skytts hdrad, p. 180; Refteled (Smaland), see a.
h. Acts as a protection against fire; hence used at the
burning of “ svedjeland,” i.e. at the clearing of forests by fire:
Jbnkbping district: MONTELIUS, Sveriges forntid, p. 161 ;
G. A. Alden, I Getapulien (i.e. Smaland), p. 144, cited by
FEILBERG, Jysk ordbog, under stenredskab ; Sbdra Tjust division
(Smaland, see a).—If you ride three times “ against the sun ”
round a fire, especially a forest fire, with a thunder-arrow, the
fire will not spread : district of Nyland : Nyland, IV. p. 106.
i. Attracts good luck ; therefore used as a sinker on fishing-
nets; a peasant in Vermland thought he had observed “ that the
fish came with greater readiness into those nets for which stone
axes were used assinkers”: MONTELIUS, Sveriges forntid, p. 161.
k. Used as an amulet against illness ; pierced axe fastened
round the neck of a child as a remedy for “ altan ” (i.e. ague) :
IdAZELIUS, Afbildningar af Nordiska Museet, Smaland, pl. II,
No. 41. Used as a cure for toothache (by touch) and other com-
plaints; butter, melted with a heated “ thunder-arrow,” is eaten or
smeared on the sore place ; portions of the “ thunder-arrow ” are
pounded and taken: district of Nyland : Nyland, IV. p. 107. The
patients drank milk in which a stone axe had lain : Edsberg
(see a).
l. Hung over the stalls of the horses as a protection against
the nightmare : Bahus district. [Communicated by Dr N. E.
Hammarstedt, Stockholm.]
m. The thunderstone turns quite red when there is a storm
in the air : islands off Esthonia : RUSSWURM, Eibofolke, II. p. 249.