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CHAPTER XIX.
AMONG THE SHAMANS.
The Sign of the Cross—Confession and Fox-skins—Entry into the Shaman
Brotherhood—A Shaman Séance—Spirits of Ancestors—Shaman
Deities—Erlik Khan—A Shaman Triennial Gathering—Samoyedes
as Converts—The Good Samaritan of the Tundra.
Having sent one of the men we had with us on to the
tundra to find natives and reindeer to carry us on to the
next stage of our journey, we arranged ourselves as
comfortably as possible under the circumstances for a few days’
rest in Katangskoie after the fatigues of the constant
travelling to which we had been exposed.
Two of the natives stopping with us proved to be Shamans.
Shamanism being strictly forbidden by the authorities, its
adherents and “priests,” the Shamans, are always very
suspicious of strangers, and sometimes in their presence
even make the sign of the Cross in order to hide their
pagan heresy. Seeing that we did not cross ourselves, and
one of the Shamans having been cured of fever by some
medicine I gave him, they believed that we were not
“orthodox”, but, on the contrary, “some kind of Shamans”
ourselves.
The Shaman who had been cured, a man of forty or so,
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