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(1674) Author: Johannes Schefferus - Tema: Sápmi and the Sami
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Of the If mens Child-bearing , (src. t2t

Sat, which they procure out of Norway , the tast of which is as strong and
ill Savoured as of a Sea-calves lard, when dried. The child, as foon as brought
forth is walhed over as in other Countries, but it is a peculiar cuftom cf the
Laplanders,that first they do it with cold Water or fnow, and then afterwards
dip them in hot water, when it begins to fetch its wind, and can Scarcely
draw breath. And alfo they uSetodip in thewaterall the other pans of
the body , the bead only excepted •, They heat water, faies Sam. Kbeen,
in a Caldron, and in that they Set the infant streight up to his neck, but
they let no water come upon his head, beSore Such time as he is
baptized by the Priest. The new born Babe is inftantly wrapped up in an Hares
skin , instead cf Iinnen Swadling clothes.

The woman lying in, hath her peculiar place affigned her in the hut
where She ledges, till She recover her health. And it isjuft by the door
u-Sually on the left hand : there is no other reafon given for it then that this
part of the hut is lefs frequently difturb’d by company, and there they
have all things needful! for them adminiftred. Tho this feldom refort thither
be rather , by reaSon of the womans lying in in that place, eirher becaufe *
they would not disturb her with their company, or, which I rather
fuppofe, becaufe they look upon her at that time as unclean. But the women
of Lapland feldom keep their beds long after their delivery, and in that
while are extraordinary carefull touching the Baptifm of their Infants: for
after they began more diligently to be instructed in the Christian
Religion , they take the greatest pains imaginable to have their Children
baptized as Soon as polTibly may be. Informer times it was otherwife, rnoft of
them then were baptized very late, and at their mature age; fome deferred
it for altogether. Of this Gufiavus the first is a witnefs,inhis Charter,the
words whereof I have cited elfewhere. As touching the former GuTtavw.
Adal-phus in an other Charter and Preface, premifed to that which he publifhed
Anno 1634, in which the State of the Religion in Lapland is declared at
large; Baptifm, faies he, is adminiftred indeed to them but only at Winter,
if their young children can live till then , it is well; if not, they die
without Baptifm. Some of their children come to years of Discretion before
it, fo that with thofe that are grown up, there is no Small paines to be
taken when they are to be baptized. The time of Baptifm being the Winter
time, was becaufe they have Sermons then preached to them,and the
Sacrament adminiftred, and that no oftner then twice; once about
New-years-day , and againe at Lady-day, of which I have treated in another place.
Before thefe times there was not So much done as that, but the Laplanders
were fain to come with their Children to the neighbouring Churches of
the Swedes in Angermanma and Bothnia, of which Olaus Magnus muff be
understood to fpeak, when he faies Lib. 4. c. 17. Once or twice in.a year
they vifit the Baptifmall Churches, and bring along with them their fucking
Babes in Baskets tied to their backs, to be baptized. But at this day thofe
women that are able, and not impeded by fome grievous ficknefs, carry
their Children to the Priest themSelves, abo.ut a fourtnight after their
delivery , that by him they may receive Baptifm. So much good hath building
Churches in Lapland done, and having Sermons there, not in a strange
Tongue, but the Laplanders proper own: and fo Zealous are they for
haftening their Childrens Baptifm , that the Mother fcarce lying in above

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