title: Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards: Pagan Mythology, Shamanism, and Magic from Finland, Lapland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
author: Frances Jenkins Olcott
description: Frances Jenkins Olcott (1873 - 1963) was a prolific author and head of the children's department at the Carnegie Library, which worked to catalog, publicize, and distribute children's literature. Her other titles include Tales of the Persian Genii, The Red Indian Fairy Book, The Book of Elves and Fairies, and The Wonder Garden.
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  Finnish Magic and the Old Gods 
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  Terri Simon 
   
  for 
   
  The Nomadic Chantry of the Gramarye 
   
   
  Converted to Adobe portable document format  
  by www.sacred-magick.com 
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  History 
  The Finnish people are, in many ways, an enigma.  Despite Finland’s location amidst 
  the Scandinavian countries, the Finns are not Scandinavian.  They came out of Asia 
  thousands of years ago and settled in Finland at least 4,000 years ago.  Their language is 
  closer to Ugrian, Samoyed or Korean than the nearby German, Russian or Swedish.  
  According to Finnish Magic by Robert Nelson, “There is evidence that the Finno-Ugrians 
  anciently occupied a major part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, and possibly part of the 
  British isles.  J. F. Campbell and others have taught that the aboriginal in