The Narym Samoyeds are still highly devoted to shamanism; here witchcraft also exists, mainly as divination and conjuring tricks. A common trick is to be tied up in a dark room, and call the so-called Lohit (Ling Loh), let them in and then out the room with an overly audible voice then end up disappearing from the room without those present knowing about it, and finally returning untied. There are no drums, but the shaman sits on a dry skin, with the skin facing up. Under the skin his tied hands are ticking Lohet’s skin, like a drum. The audience also thinks they hear squirrels running, bears growling, and snakes hissing around the room.

Kî = Ket = Kem = joki

Köu (köng)

On the left bank of the Ob, the Samoyeds live only by the Parabel and the Tsoja and the Tscheshabka, a tributary of the Wasjugan.

They have lost all memories of antiquity and know no clans.

(They know that have never worked with reindeer.)

One of their prejudices is that a hunter never eats bear meat, because the bears would later eat the hunter.

There are no house marks.