Lecture, Tim Frandy: “The River Gives Life: Sámi Ontologies of Water and the Witchcraft Trial of Aikia Aikianpoika”

In the year 1671 the Sámi shaman Aikia Aikianpoika was charged with witchcraft by the missionary Gabriel Tuderus, for summoning salmon for a Finnish fisherman from Kemi, Mordula Tobias. After a bountiful catch, and upon failure to deliver a promised payment, Tobias was later found drowned near the place he fished for salmon.

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