Carl Linnaeus, The Lapland Journey, translated by Peter Graves (Edinburgh: Lockharton Press, 1995), p. 101.

The Prefecture of Luleå [1], 23/06/1732, ¶486:

23rd. I went up to the church in Old Luleå. Right by the door I was shown a hole that the old order of monks had made in the stone wall. Its diameter and its depth were of an equal size; it was quite round and its bottom was smoothed off in an egg shape. It was a test that the cathedral chapter used to use to judge the glans penis of men who had been rejected by their wives. In the church I was shown a valuable altar painting and old statues of martyrs with cavities in their heads through which, I was told, water was poured so that tears came out of the eyes as if they were weeping. Also two posts on which there were images that, by means of a suitable arrangement of cords, were supposed to have been able to raise their hands in worship.

  1. Old Luleå visited