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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Volume 12); Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 the Original Frenc

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Volume 12); Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 the Original Frenc

Thwaites, Reuben Gold

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ISBN10: 1458882594
ISBN13: 9781458882592
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... peated several times in different tones, grave and heavy, although pleasant enough to the ear. We asked him why he sang this to capture animals. I learned, said he, this song in a dream; and that is why I have preserved and used it since. He requested us earnestly to teach him what must be sung to cure the sick, and to have a good chase, promising us to observe it exactly. Here is one of the methods employed by the wicked ones to kill their countrymen. Some one has told me that they had formerly tried to use these deviltries against the French, but that they could not make them sick. If the Christian realized his own dignity he would hold it in high esteem. A Sorcerer, wishing to kill some one, enters his Tent and summons the Genii of the light, or those who make the light; they call them thus, and we call them Devils. When they arrive, he sends them after the soul of him, or of those, whom they wish to kill. If these persons belong to another Nation, they change their name, lest their relatives, getting wind of the affair, 158 take vengeance on the sorcerer. The Genii bring these poor souls in the form of stones, or in some other shape. Then the sorcerer strikes them with blows of javelins or hatchets, so hard that the blood runs down from them, so copiously that the javelin or the hatchet remains all stained and red with it. When this is done, the one whose soul had been struck falls sick, and languishes unto death. See how these poor people are deluded by the Demons. When one Savage hates another, he employs a sorcerer to kill him in this way; but they say that if the sick man happens to dream who it is that has bewitched him, he will get well and the sorcerer will die. These en hayt quelqu'autre, il fe fert d'vn forcier pour le tuer en cefte manie...

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