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In reality, the word 'fox fires' in fact probably means 'spell fires', because the Finnish 'revon' (an inflected form of the word 'repo' = fox) is derived from 'repoitella' meaning 'to chant spells'. aurora chalet

Northern Lights in Hemavan The beliefs of the colours A lot of people thought that auroras, especially the red ones, foretold bad times, such as plague, war or great fires. The reddish auroras often made people believe that a city close by was on fire and they rushed there only to find that it was not the case. It is easy to see how people who were not used to auroras could mistake them for fires, especially since most of the houses were made of wood and easily caught fire. For the Laplanders, as for other people in northern Europe, Asia and America, the aurora was a place for the dead. Above all it were people who had died a violent or too early death who came to live in the aurora. It could be people who were murdered, killed in war, took their own life, died in child birth or unborn children .

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To some extent, foxes have played a role in the mythologies and folklore of every society that has known them. Most of the stories involve some aspect of the fox?s beauty, intelligence, cunning, and individuality. Because of their competition with humans, and their nocturnal nature which could be associated with evil or death, myths about these animals frequently cast the fox in an unappealing light. Foxes and Poeple

One story tells of the Arctic Seas being so full of fish that the light that fell on the water was reflected back into the sky by the shiny scales of the fishes. The old Finnish language had a word that resembled the modern word "fox", but it really referred to making magic. This suggests that ancient Finns really meant "magic lights" when they used such a word, and not a fox running on the snow . fox fires

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