Central & North Asia
7 findings, grouped by tradition.
Sámi3
- The Trial of Anders PoulsenWillumsen argued in 2020 that the record names no Sámi deity and no sacrificial site, so it cannot be read as a description of Sámi shamanism.
- JoikSchefferus's Lapponia (1673) printed two love songs from the Sámi Olaus Sirma; a line of one became Longfellow's refrain 'A boy's will is the wind's will'.
- The Noaidi and the Confiscated DrumsOf about a hundred drums Thomas von Westen gathered in 1716–23, over seventy burned in Copenhagen's fire of 1728, after his death. About a hundred Sámi drums survive.
Siberian2
- The Soviet Repression of ShamansRepression in the 1920s and 1930s decimated Buryat shamans. Buryatia's first shamans' organisation, Bo Murgel, was founded only in 1993.
- Eliade's ShamanismEliade wrote it in Paris, 1946–1951, from published accounts, calling himself 'neither an Altaicist nor an Americanist'.
Neoshamanism1
Tungus / Evenki (Siberia)1