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as the author of Eclipses and other aerial phenomenon, by means of their art in the occult sciences. However such Events as the latter give them little uneasiness. They entertain some Notions of a resurrection, as appears by their death lamentation, in which they recommend the Deceased to the Otter and Loon (Huyard) to conduct him over the great lake that leads to the other world. They are very little tinctured with superstition: they do not invoke or perform any kind of worship or adulation to any object whatever. They have considerable confidence in their own abilities in curing diseases, by performing these absurd gestures common in a less or greater degree to all Tribes of Indians, by means of which they pretend to extract hair, toads and small pike fish &c. from the parts of the body affected.

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