Finnish magic songs

The Finns possess a considerable number of words and epithets for wizard, sorcerer, witch, seer, ecstatic and the like. Some of these are native words like noita ''a sorcerer,'' tieto-mies or tietäjä ''the knower,'' loitsija ''the reciter of a magic song (loitsu), arpoja ''a diviner,'' näkijä ''a seer,'' myrrys-mies or into-mies ''an ecstatic,'' lumoja ''a stupefier,'' lukija ''a reciter,'' katsel...