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Of the Laplanders. , ^ n
of a quite different make. I have described mine under the drums A, and
B, by the mark G; but the common Sort of rings are of copper, and thoSe
upon the Chancellors drums are altogether Such. Some Writers call theSe
rings Serpents, or brazen frogs, and toads not that they refemble them,
but becaufe by them they Signifie thefe creature, whofe piftures they
often uSe in their conjuring, as SuppoSing them very grateful’and
acceptable to the Devil. The Laplanders call the Index Arpa, or gyiidas ;
and make it indifferently oS any Sort of metal. The hammer they uSein
raiSing their familiars, is not the Smith’s; which was the errour of him
that drew it in Olaus M^gn. but is an instrument belonging only to the
Laplanders, and called, by a peculiar name by them : it is made of a
Rain-deers horn, branching like a fork, this is the head of the hammer, the
other part ferves for the handle. The.instrument is placed under the two
drums A. B. with the letter H, with rhfc hammer they beat the drum, not
fo much to make a noile, as by the drumming to move the ring lying on
the skin, fo as to pafs over the piflures, and fhew what they Sought after.
This is the description of the drum j with all its neceffaries as it is ufed
by the Laplanders that are SubjeA to the Swedes ; the Fmlappers alfo thac
are under the Crown cf Danemarke, make ufe of drums Something
different in falliion from the former; yet however the difference is fo Small,
that I believe their drums are notoSa differennkindSrom ours, but made
only for Some particular ufes. I Shall give an account ofon of thofe,
described in U’ormius’s Study , who faies that the Laplanders drum, which
’’they ufe in their magic , and by beating which they difcover thofe things
"they de fired, is made of an oval piece of wood hollowed, in length a foot,
"in breadth ten inches ; in this they make fix holes, and put a handle to
"it, that they may hold in the left hand, whilst they>beat it with the other;
" upon it they stretch over a skin, pain ted with diverfe rude figures, drawn
’’with blood,or red; upon this lies a piece of brafs> in the Shape of a
Rhom-’’boides, Somewhat convtxe , about two inches in diameter, in the middle
"of this, and at each corner hangs a Small chain. The instrument,with which
"they beat the drum , is of bone , fix inches long, about the thicknefs of
"a little finger , and made much like the Latine T.
This instrument tht Laplanders ufe for diverfe defigns, and are of
opinion that whatever they do it is don by the help of this. For this reafun
they have it in great esteem and reverence, taking fuch care in fecuringit,
that they wrap it with the Index, and hammer, up in a Lambskin, and
and for its greater fafety , lay it in fome private place. But I think it an
errour , to fuppofe them to lay it in a Lambskin: for it is written in fome
places Loomskin , which Signifies the skin of a bird that lives altogether in
the water. They think it fo lacred, and holy, that they fuffer no maid
that is marriageable to touch it; and if they remove it from place to place,
they carry it the last of all, and this muSt be don too only by men ; or elfe
they go with it thro fome untrod way, that no body may either meet
or follow them. The reafon they give for their great care in this
particular , is, becaufe they believe if any one, efpecially a maid that is
marriageable, Should fellow the fame way, they would in three daies time at least
fall into fome defperate difeafe, and commonly without any hopes of
recovery. This they Seem to verifie by many examples, that we may give the
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