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The history of Lapland, wherein are shewed the original, manners, habits, marriages, conjurations, &c. of that people (1674)

Scheffer, Johannes, 1621-1679, Cremer, Acton, 1650 or 1651- · [Oxford] At the Theater in Oxford · leaf 105

An illustration from The history of Lapland, wherein are shewed the original, manners, habits, marriages, conjurations, &c. of that people, 1674, leaf 105 — only the daughters lay on the fide of the husband and wife, I believe, that their Parents might have them alwaies nigh them , and fo take greater care to fecure their honefiy , whilft the fonsin the mean time lay with the fervants: but now thefpaces that remain towards the doors they call Fitta ,… … The 3‘i thing w^e arc to note in th(*fe flieds, is that they ftrew their floors with branches of Birch trees , leaft by the rain they fiiould be wetted, and Y they

Sami (European people)

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