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Chapter 1: What is the significance of shamans in Sami culture?
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Chapter 2: How did Christian missionaries impact Sami shamans?
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Chapter 3: What unusual methods did Sami shamans use for divination?
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Chapter 5: How does the park's portrayal of history spark controversy?
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Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Holborn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anna Tyszynski, Andrew Hunter-Murray and James Harkin. And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days. And in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that is James.
OK, my fact this week is that in 17th century Sweden, Sammy Shamans had to work in secret.
Chapter 7: How does AI influence our perception of human interactions?
Unfortunately, most of their work involved constant drumming. Sammy Shamans sounds like an end-of-the-peer kind of magician slash psychic. That's true. Hi, it's Sammy Shamans, and here is my magical drum, because they did have magical drums, the Sammy. They are a group of people who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northern Russia, and And they still live there today.
But they started off as hunter-gatherers, went into reindeer herding, and they move around with the reindeer. But one of the most important people in the community was the Shaman, who is known as a Noaidi. And the Noaidi would communicate between the worlds by using this drum.
And he would kind of bang, bang, bang and get into such a rhythm that he would get into some kind of weird sort of trance.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of AI on creativity and art?
And I say he because it was always a he. And they felt like they could transform into other creatures, transform into the wind, all this kind of stuff. And they were persecuted by Christian missionaries. And the Christian missionaries just basically said, we're having that drum. And they took the drums off them. Confiscated them. Confiscated them, destroyed most of them.
There's not many of them left, but there is one in the British Museum, which is where I read about this whole story.
They are engraved or painted with pictures, and I think there's a way you can do divination, as in the Sammy Shaman would strike the drum with a hammer that is made of an engraved reindeer antler, because reindeer is a very big deal, and then that makes a little brass ring that you've got dance across the surface of the drum, and how far it goes or what it lands on tells you, or tells him, because it is always a him.
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Woke hasn't yet come for the Sammy Shaman world, basically. And that tells you the future, you know.
Or I did read an account from 1674, which I think is the earliest account we have of more southern people, by a guy called John Sheffer, who said they also sometimes use the drums to decide what animal to sacrifice to their gods. So he said each drum would be covered in lots of pictures of animals and birds and fish and stuff.
And then there was a kind of a pole attached to the drums and at the top of it, a little brass frog and you bang the drum. And when the brass frog fell off, whatever animal it landed on, whatever animal the frog chose was the one that you had to kill.
It's like a wheel of fortune kind of thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yes.
You're not proposing taking this ancient sacred ritual and putting it on ITV at prime time.
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