Cheremiss

Several thousands of the Ostiaks, Voguls and Cheremiss are still unbaptized, and much paganism lingers among the nominal Christians, and in poetry such as the Kalewala.

Farther east, in the valley of the Volga, the Cheremiss celebrate about midsummer a festival which Haxthausen regarded as identical with the midsummer ceremonies of the rest of Europe.

The Cheremiss, another Finnish people of Eastern Russia, chase Satan from their dwellings by beating the walls with cudgels of lime-wood.

We hear of a forest-god among the Finns, Lapps and Cheremiss.

Those inhabiting the right bank of the Volga are physically stronger and are Cheremissians. known as Hill Cheremiss.