The Innuits, or Eskimos, of Smith Sound, Greenland, the most
northerly people in the world, believe that the aurora borealis
has a singing noise; and the inhabitants of the Orkneys, of
Finmarken, and those in the region of Hudson Bay believe,
with many competent observers, that a peculiar sound like the
rustling of silk always accompanies it. The Lapps liken this
sound to the cracking in the joints of moving reindeer. (Text.)
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