Starting from the late 9th century onwards, the ancestors of the Hungarian people migrated from their Proto-Uralic homeland in Siberia to the Pannonian Basin, an area that includes present-day Hungary. Today, shamanism is no longer widely practiced by Hungarians, but elements of shamanism have been preserved in their folklore. Comparative methods reveal that some motifs used in folktales, fragments of songs and folk rhymes retain aspects of the ancient belief system. In an effort to prove that shamanistic remnants existed within Hungarian folklore ethnographer, Diószegi Vilmos, compared ethnographic records of Hungarian and neighboring peoples, and works about various shamanic traditions of some Siberian peoples.Diószegi 1998 Mihály Hoppál continued Diószegi Vilmos's workHoppál 1998 comparing shamanic beliefs of speakers of Uralic languagesHoppál 1975 with those of several non-Uralic Siberian peoples.Hoppál 2005Hoppál 1994
