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(8) Annoy the soul of his enemy by keeping it away from its body, or annoy 
his shadow so that it cannot work in harmony with the soul and body. Some Indians 
give one explanation, some the other; but all agree that if the sorcerer molests his 
victim four nights in succession the man will die. He makes his visits at night, some- 
times in human form, stark naked, more often as an animal or a bird. If the Indians 
shoot him he gives forth a flash of light and disappears completely; for whether he is 
killed or merely wounded the evil manido that is helping him conveys him back to 
his home. Some Parry Islanders hold that the sorcerer's body does not leave his 
camp, but that it is his soul, clothed in bird or animal form, that molests his victim. 
The majority vehemently deny this, asserting that the sorcerer transforms his actual 
body. 
The victim may be fully conscious of the sorcerer’s attacks and inform his kins- 
men. In earlier times they would then call in a djiskiu or a kusabindugeyu, who sat 
beside the patient, smoked a pipe for a few minutes, and departed with the comforting 
remark ‘ He will be all right now,’ implying that the presence of his superior 
medicine-power had prevented any further molestation for that night of the sick 
man’s soul or shadow. 
“ One evening some young men and women who were skating on the ice near 
Cape Croker saw flashes of light approaching them, and heard a thumping as of 
some one running. They spread out and intercepted the vision, which proved to be 
a woman, stark naked as are all sorcerers and witches when they travel in human 
form to practise witchcraft. When they seized her and asked her where she was 
going she answered ‘I was going to visit that sick girl at the far end of the village. 
This was to be my fourth visit and she would then die to-night.’ The youths, one 
of whom was the invalid’s brother, threatened to inform on her if she did not 
straightway heal her victim. The witch promised and instantly disappeared, while 
the young man hastened to his home. He found his family asleep, for a visit from 
a sorcerer or witch renders people drowsy. Only his sister was sitting up on her bed, 
begging for water to drink. She said to him ‘Some one just visited me and told me 
I should get well.’ The very next day she rose from her bed completely cured” 
(Pegahmagabow) . 
“One night an Indian on the Shawanaga reserve shot at a were-bear that was 
molesting a sick relative. The next day a young man on the same reserve received 
a telegram stating that his grandmother, who lived at Cape Croker, had been severely 
wounded with a shotgun during the night. The youth went over to the house of 
the man who had shot at the were-bear and said to him ‘It was my grandmother 
you shot last night’” (John Manatuwaba). 
“One evening my brother heard an owl in the trees close by his house. He shot 
it, and fire issued from the ground as it fell. When he looked for the dead bird 
in the morning he found nothing, but a few weeks later he heard that a man had 
died that same night at a village just north of Manitoulin island. Thus he discovered 
the identity of the sorcerer who had tried to bewitch him” (James Walker), 
(9) Give one of his medicines the form of an animal or bird and send it to 
molest his enemy. Sorcerers, therefore, carry in their medicine-bags ( skibdagan , the 
same name as is given to the medicine-bags carried by members of the Grand Medi- 
cine Society) parts of dogs, bears, geese, and particularly owls, which they transform 
for their purposes into the semblance of living creatures. The pseudo-owl may perch 
on a tree near a hunter’s camp and turn counter-sunrise, praying to the evil manidos 
in each of the four quarters to aid in harming its victim. There is sure to be a 
manido in one or other direction which will answer its call. Then the hunter will 
kill no game ; and his family will starve. In his distress he will call on his own 
guardian spirit. If it upholds him the pseudo-owl will shrink up and change into 
dried skin and bones again. 
“Last night I did not sleep well, for an evil manido was oppressing me. At noon 
today my boy saw a tiny moose near the house. It disappeared instantly, and left 
no tracks. Some sorcerer was trying to bewitch me by giving one of his medicines 
the form of a moose” (Pegahmagabow). 
“Last spring an owl prowled around my house just at the time my baby was 
bom. I could not kill any game, and became seriously ill, while my family was 
starving. Neighbours advised me to shoot the owl, but I knew that even if I hit it 
the bird would simply disappear and my gun would be quite useless afterwards. Then 
