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John SHEFFER from STRASBOURG

LAPLAND of 1674, or the new and correct description of the country saamy and the most Lappish people in which much still is stated to anybody unknown about his origin, superstitions, sorcery, a way of life, customs, and also about the nature of animals and the metals meeting in Lapland, with the appendix of detailed figures to that

  • Dedication J. Sheffers (1673)

  • To the favourable reader

  • About an origin of the term "Lapland"

  • About a site of Lapland

  • About a climate and the nature of Lapland

  • About division of Lapland

  • About physical and mental features saamy

  • About an origin saamy people

  • About primitive religion saamy

  • About distribution of christianity among saamy

  • About some vestiges at modern saamy

  • About pagan gods saamy and about worship him

  • Sorcery saamy

  • Social system saamy

  • About judicial establishments and taxes saamy

  • About fairs and trade

  • About saamy language

  • About saamy dwellings

  • About clothes saamy

  • About food saamy

  • About hunting

  • About the weapon and the hunting equipment saamy

  • About employment and crafts of men at saamy

  • About employment saamy women

  • About the affairs peculiar in an equal measure and men and women

  • About leisure and games saamy

  • Courtship and wedding ceremonies saamy

  • About sorts and education of children

  • About illness, death and burial

  • About pets saamy

  • About the wild animals found in Lapland

  • About birds, fishes and other representatives of an animal empire

  • Flora of Lapland

  • About metals and ores in Lapland

  • About rocks, jewels and pearls

  • About waters and the rivers of Lapland

  • About ground and mountains of Lapland

 THE APPENDIX TO NUMBER

  • Kola peninsula on an ancient map of the Russian State of 1672

  • " The ancient letter " tsar Ivan Vasiljevich Pechenga to a monastery on his possession in the Kola district, with financial privileges for them from November, 21, 1556 (and a material about falseness of this letter)

  • Legal and church customs saamy

  • Seidy and labyrinthes of Lapland

 

 

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