PART 1

Introductory Remarks ... ... 1 Conjuring: The Interpreter's Account Initiations and Conjuring ... ... 4 In Quest of Dreams Dialogue with a Spirit ... ... 5 Principal Spirits Wee-suck-ā-jāāk / Gey-Shay-mani-_to_ ... ... 6 Key-jick-oh-kay (Old Nick) Water Lynx ... ... 7 Sun A Dream Meeting with Sun Thunder ... ... 8 Roots and Herbs (Medicines) The Manner of Conjuring Building the Lodge Preparing the Conjurer Spirits who Enter the Lodge and Interactions with Them Meeh-key-nock (Turtle) ... ... 9 Thunder Flying Squirrel Wolverine Loon Hercules / Strong Neck: Altercation with a Young Man O-may-me-thay-day-ce-cee-wuck (Ancients or Hairy Breasts) Sun ... ... 10 Pike Buffaloe Omniscience of Spirits Showing the Turtle Spirit ... ... 11 Bear Keyjickahkaiw Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Practices of Powerful Conjurers Mythology North Wind & his Daughter (Birth of Wee-suck-ā-jāāk & Mishabôse) ... 13 Death of Mishabôse Wee-suck-ā-jāāk and Kingfisher Myths of the Flood Wee-suck-ā-jāāk's Revenge on the Sea Lynxes Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Tricks a Water Lynx and Beaver Recreation of the Land ... ... 14 Wolf Surveys the Land ... ... 15 Creation of Humans Separation of Land into Plains and Woods ... 16 Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Travels the Earth, has a Son, becomes a Woman Language Use Conversations ... ... 17 The Figure in the Dream is Sickness Sickness Gives Warnings of Diseases Reappearances of Spirits in Dreams to Teach the Votary ... ... 18 Malevolent Spirits (Need for Regular Sacrifices) Accounts of Pahkack Attacks at Home and While Hunting Making Offerings at a Hunting Camp ... ... 19 Description of Pahkack The Feast to Pahkack ... ... 20 Roots and Medicines ... ... 21 The Abode of the Medicine Spirit Teaching the Medicines to the Votary Stones and Their Virtues ... ... 23 Songs and Notes Treatment of the Sick ... ... 24 Ceremonies and Songs Related to Starvation ... ... 25 Fugitive Pieces The Soul ... ... 27 An Attempt to Capture a Soul Representation of the Soul ... ... 28 Imprisonment of a Soul 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