Chapter III: 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

PART 2 Typescript of Manuscript

References

LA RONGE JOURNAL, 1823