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worse, hoping to find his cure in these noises which only made me worse, 

 (vi., 187.) 



The power of the sorcerers is great. 



They say that the Sorcerers ruin them ; for if any one has succeeded in 

 an enterprise, if his trading or hunting is successful, immediately these wicked 

 men bewitch him, or some member of his family, so that they have to spend 

 it all in Doctors and Medicines. Hence, to cure these and other diseases, 

 there are a large number of Doctors whom they call Arendiouane. These 

 persons, in my opinion, are true Sorcerers, who have access to the Devil. 

 Some only judge of the evil, and that in divers ways, namely, by Pyromancy, 

 by Hydromancy, Necromancy, by feasts, dances, and songs ; the others 

 endeavour to cure the disease by blowing, by potions, and by other ridiculous 

 tricks, which have neither any virtue nor natural efficacy. But neither class 

 do anything without generous presents and good pay. (viii. , 123.) 



A fuller account of the method pursued by sorcerers 



wishing to injure their enemies is given in the following 



passage : — 



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, 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 lan- 

 guishes 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 Genii, or 

 makers of Light, induce them to believe that they greatly love their Nation, 

 but that the wicked Manitou prevents them from procuring for it the 

 blessings they would desire. 



They imagine that he who longs for, or desires the death of another, 

 especially if he be a sorcerer, will often have his wish gratified ; but also the 

 sorcerer who has had this wish dies after the others. It is strange to see how 

 these people agree so well outwardly, and how they hate each other within. 

 They do not often get angry and fight with one another, but in the depths of 



