Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ *Lapponia* (1682) — The Public Domain Review

This drum is cosmological in scope according to Schefferus (who presumably numbered its figures), depicting, inter alia: the river Torne (2), God (5), the Sun (6), the Moon (7), Saint Matthew (13), England (32), Turkey (36), the cities of Finland (39), the cities of Germany (41), a countryman (53), a bailiff (58), a bear (64), “the most dangerous and malicious sorcerers” (79), “the young One of a Raindeer” (87), a cat (89), the devil’s ditch (100), “the first President of the Assembly of Magicians” (117), “the fourth President of the same Assembly” (120), the gallows (124), health (147), “a mortal Wound given by a magical Javelin” (149), and the condition of “not [being] allowed to Sacrifice to any God of the Mountains, neither to the Trunk of a Tree, nor to any Stone, because this Character implies, that it will be in vain, and unsuccessful” (150).