Medicines Used to Harm Others ... ... 29
Used Against a Woman
Wild Carroway ... ... 31
Used in Hunting
As Love Potions (Baptiste's Stories) ... ... 32
Effecting and Avoiding Spells ... ... 33
Dealing with Spells on Firearms
The Old Canadian's Account ... ... 34
The Iroquois' Account
The Half Breed's Account ... ... 35
Stories of the Hairy Breasts and Nayhanimis... ... 36
North Wind's Challenge
Nayhanimis Wars with the Hairy Breasts ... ... 37
Notes
Motives for Writing the Journal ... ... 40
Comments on Aboriginal Beliefs ... ... 41
Mee-tay-wee
Conjuring
Evidence of Spirits through Conjuring Practice
Conjuring Ceremony for a N. W. Co. Gentleman ... ... 42
Stories ... ... 43
The Hunter and the Wolf Spirit
Pursuit by a Pahkack
Wetiko ... ... 44
Trapping a Wetiko
Habits and Types of Wetiko ... ... 45
Those Driven to Cannibalism by Starvation
Story of a Wetiko Woman ... ... 46
Those who Dream of Ice and the North ... ... 47
Dream Feasts Of Human Flesh
Behavior of Infected People ... ... 48
An Account of Survival
Executing a Wetiko
Treatments and Recovery ... ... 49
Malignant Spirits... ... 50
North, Ice, Skeleton and the Crazy Woman
Confession ... ... 51
Animal Sacrifice (Beaver Indians) ... ... 53
Fragments ... ... 54
The Great Doctor
The Devil and the Tailor Caricature
Feasts
Conjuring Ceremony (June 4th., 1823) ... ... 56
PART 2
Typescript of Manuscript
References
LA RONGE JOURNAL, 1823
PART 1
{1} [Introductory Remarks]
The following few stories or tales will give a better notion or idea
of the religion of these people than every other description _I_ am able
to pen. And as their _history_ is read with interest, I am persuaded
these few pages will be found equally deserving attention. I give them
the same as I received them and leave every one to make his own
remarks and to draw his own conclusions.
[Conjuring: The Interpreter's Account]
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