. The new eclectic history of the United States . 24 HISTORY OF THE UNITED Medicine-man. sv vapor baths and extracts of roots andherbs; but to these real remedies theyadded howlings, and violent motions of thebody, which were supposed to frightenaway the evil spirits that caused disease. 29. Keligion.—According to the dark no-tions of barbarians, the Indians were avery religious people. They believed in aGreat Spirit, who had made the world,and whose goodness they celebrated by sixannual thanksgivings, — at the first flowingof maple-sap, at planting, at the ripeningof berries, when th
. The new eclectic history of the United States . 24 HISTORY OF THE UNITED Medicine-man. sv vapor baths and extracts of roots andherbs; but to these real remedies theyadded howlings, and violent motions of thebody, which were supposed to frightenaway the evil spirits that caused disease. 29. Keligion.—According to the dark no-tions of barbarians, the Indians were avery religious people. They believed in aGreat Spirit, who had made the world,and whose goodness they celebrated by sixannual thanksgivings, — at the first flowingof maple-sap, at planting, at the ripeningof berries, when their green corn wasreadv for eating, at harvest, and at NewYear. They believed, also, in an Evil Spirit, who might bringupon them famine or sickness, or defeat in war. and whom theysought to appease by fastings and sacrifices. They expectedanother life after death, and desired to have their weapons,and sometimes a favorite dog, buried with them for use in thehappy hunting-grounds. The Natchez, on the lower Mis-sissippi, were sun-worshipers, andkept a sacred fire always burnin
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