Popular Beliefs and Folklore Tradition in Siberia

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Antal Reguly -- Seite Cult and Drum Magic of the Lapps -- Survivals of Totemism in the Hungarian táltos Tradition -- The Hungarian Shaman's Technique of Trance Induction -- Some Observances and Customs of the Mansi (Voguls) in Connection with Childbirth -- Two Purification Rites in the Bear Cult of the Ob-Ugrians -- On Some Ancient Anthropomorphic Images from West Siberia -- Khanty (Ostyak) Sheds for Sacrificial Objects -- An Ostyak Tale from M.A. Castrén's Manuscripts -- On the Trail of Ostyak (Khanty) Mythical Songs -- Funeral Rites among the Enets (Yenisei Samoyeds) -- On Some Problems of Versification in Samoyed Shamanistic Songs -- How Sereptie Djaruoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) Became a Shaman -- The Classification of Samoyed Shamans -- The Cult of Bear among the Ket (Yenisei Ostyaks) -- Survivals of Fotemism in the Ancestor Cult of the Kazan Tatars -- Shamans' Drums of Altaic Ethnic Groups -- The Protection of Children among the Shors -- The Problem of the Ethnic Homogeneity of Tofa (Karagas) Shamanism -- The Tuvan (Soyot) Shaman's Drum and the Ceremony of its 'Enlivening' -- The Acquisition of Shamanistic Ability among the Evenki (Tungus) -- Shamanistic Songs of the Evenki (Tungus) -- A Nanai (Gold) Tale about the Fortieth Brother and His Wife, a Washbear (Ursus lotor) -- The Three-Grade Amulets among the Nanai (Golds) -- Features of the Ancient Religious Rites and Taboos of the Nivkhi (Gilyaks) -- Remarks on Nivkhi (Gilyak) Proper Names (Anthroponyms) -- Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes -- The Preservation of Animal Bones in the Hunting- Rites of Some North-Eurasian Peoples -- Mother Cult in Siberia -- About the Alt of the Ancient Tribes of the Lower Tomi -- Two Asiatic Sidereal Names -- Abbreviations