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Haltios

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In Laplandic mythology, the guardian spirits of Mount Nieʹmi.

“From this height [Nieʹmi, in Lapland] we had opportunity several times to see those vapours rise from the lake, which the people of the country call Haltios, and which they deem to be the guardian spirits of the mountain.”—M. de Maupertuis.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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