[Illustration: The explication of the Figures. In the Drum C. _a_ denotes _Birds_. b _black Foxes_. c _Tinur_, a God. d _Thor_, a God. e _Thors hammer_. f _Storjunkare_. g _a wooden Idol_. h _his Servant_. i _a Star_. k _an Ox_. l _a Goat_. m _a Star_. n _the Moon_. o _the Sun_. p _a Star_. q _another Star_. r _a Wolf_.] The two greater Figures represent, one the upper, the other the lower side of the Drum, and so do also the two lesser. Besides these two drums, I had also a third given me by the same Lord of as great a size as any that can be usually met with. [Illustration] To these I add a fourth, given me by the Illustrious Baron Lieutenant _Henry Flemming_, mark’t with the letter F. [Illustration] Now there are two things required to fit the drum for use, an Index and a Hammer, that shews among the pictures the thing they enquire after, with this they beat the drum. The Index is the bunch of brazen rings mentioned before. They first place one great ring upon the drum, then they hang severall small ones upon that; the shape of the Index’s is very different, for of these I have one made of copper, of the bigness of a _Dollar_, with a square hole in the middle, several small chains hanging about it instead of rings. Another hath an Alchymy ring, on which a small round plate of copper is hung by little chains. I have seen another also of bone, in the shape of the Greek Δ, with rings about it; and others of a quite different make. I have described mine under the drums A, and B, by the mark G; but the common sort of rings are of copper, and those upon the Chancellors drums are altogether such. Some writers call these rings serpents, or brazen frogs, and toads, not that they resemble them, but because by them they signifie these creature, whose pictures they often use in their conjuring, as supposing them very grateful and acceptable to the Devil. The _Laplanders_ call the Index _Arpa_, or _Quobdas_; and make it indifferently of any sort of metal. The hammer they use in raising their familiars, is not the Smith’s; which was the errour of him that drew it in _Olaus Magn._ but is an instrument belonging only to the _Laplanders_, and called by a peculiar name by them: it is made of a Rain-deers horn, branching like a fork, this is the head of the hammer, the other part serves for the handle. The instrument is placed under the two drums A. B. with the letter H, with the hammer they beat the drum, not so much to make a noise, as by the drumming to move the ring lying on the skin, so as to pass over the pictures, and shew what they sought after. This is the description of the drum, with all its necessaries as it is used by the _Laplanders_ that are subject to the _Swedes_; the _Finlappers_ also that are under the Crown of _Danemarke_, make use of drums something different in fashion from the former; yet however the difference is so small, that I believe their drums are not of a different kind from ours, but made only for some