Identifier: p6ontariosession48ontauoft (find matches)
Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No.17-18
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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Head Chief of Petiin Shamans. 46 AllCILKOLOdlCAL JJKlOirr. malady, the origin of which he was unable to explain, he sent for the sliainan toicarn the cause of liis sickness and to avert its evil effects. The Sir.vMAx as a Mkdicixe-man. The universal opinion among the Canadian tribes, from ocean to ocean, thatall diseases or ailments which failed to yield to ordinary treatment were causedby an imp or imps wliieli had entered and settled in some part or parts of thesick man or woman induced them to turn to tliose who claimed to have jjowerto expel these imps. This power the shaman, autmoin or medicine-man of thetribe was supposed to possess. We are not now concerned to know by what means—fastings, isolations, macerations and communings Avith spirits—he obtained hisinfluence. We know he professed, like Owen Glendower, to have power over.spirits, and liis trihesnuMi admitted his claim. The sliaman was no fool. It istrue he was i)art quack, part doctor and impostor, and was generally a

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