Good and evil spirits they recognized, and to them appealed in Their minister or priest was called kitziIt was his duty to visit the sick and exorcise the evil

sacrifice and fires.

naeka.

spirits ; or, failing, to

see the usual rites for the dead performed.

He had no home of his own, but lodged were it pleased him, was not permitted to eat any food prepared by a married woman, but that only which was cooked " like a by a maiden or an old woman, and altogether lived or where he last officiated ;

To the sun, moon and stars they paid particular The first moon following that at the end of Feb They watched its coming and they greatly honored.

Capuchin."

x

attention.

ruary

greeted its advent with a festival, at which they collected from " in their all quarters and reveled way with wild game or fish,"

and drank clear

river water to their

fill.

This was their new

The harvest moon, year or the new moon in August, they also honored with a feast, in ;

this moon the harbinger of spring.

Wassenaar, Documentary History of

Neva York, HI, 28.

THE INDUN TRIBES

acknowledgment of the product of their fields and their success in the chase.

They

fully

recognized the existence of God, who dwelt in a life immortal expected to renew the

beyond the stars, and

But to them God had less to do with

associations of this life. 1

the world than did the devil, who was the principal subject of their fears, and the source of their No expedi earthly hopes. tions of hunting, fishing or war were undertaken unless the devil was first consulted, and to him they offered the first fruits