Now we will be again this spring visited with some sickness, but I cannot tell which--it is a breaking out in the flesh. And his appearing {18} to you (me) is a sign that he will certainly pass. I then asked him if he intended telling the other Indians of it. "I shall tell my Elder (brother), but not the others, for they won't believe me." He was very diffident. He wanted to communicate to me all he was told. But [he] said he durst not lest he should injure himself by exasperating the other (_Sickness_) and being _enigmatically_ forbidden! "He told me," continued the Indian, "as a sign, that two of our number should die this winter: one a small one, (and _he_ is dead, naming to me a child that had died about that time, though very distant then from him) and the other a full grown person. Whom he is I know not, _but one must die_!" [Reappearances of Spirits in Dreams] These chaps [spirits] seldom appear (in dreams) less than four times, but commonly six times, and each time in a different form until the last, when he _makes himself known_. And ever after [the spirit] appears (or rather [they] appear) in the same uniform manner. It is then, after they have made themselves completely known to their votaries, that they communicate their power and teach their _songs_ which, though in their dreams, are so indelibly imprinted in their memories that they are never forgotten. For every one of these spirits, genii, demons, phantasies, or whatever you may please to term them, have each their _song_ which they communicate to their votaries, as well as explain also their power. Hence it is, that when any one amongst them has dreamed of a certain number, commonly a good many, twenty, thirty, or perhaps a thousand, that they can _conjure_ when they please. For these, like the guardian genii in the fables, keep always near them, and protect them from _too_ much injury from the evil machinations of some of the mischievous ones. [Malevolent Spirits (Need for Regular Sacrifices)] Indeed, from what I can learn, there are but few of these _familiars_ but do do evil to their votaries if they, the votaries, the Indians, neglect performing the regular, annual, or perhaps more distant periodical sacrifice. And [for these sacrifices], their _familiar_ tells them what it is he expects. [Accounts of Pahkack] [Attacks at Home and While Hunting] A few days ago in the night between the 31st March and 1st April, this Indian was sleeping in an old house I sent him to when, at a late hour in the night, he was pulled most violently out of his bed so that his wife, that was lying beside him, awoke and with difficulty kept him down, though he also struggled himself to make his _familiar_ leave his hold. And the house shook violently.