Hugh Pendexter

“ If a person among the Wyandots grew deaf, or blind, or had earaches and head aches, his affliction, should he have been suspected of sorcery in the past, would be prima facie evidence that he was a witch, and that his evil inclinations had turned and were tormenting him. He was punished.
The Iroquois myths are filled with stories of witches. A man on the Buffalo reservation saw a dog blowing fire from mouth and nostrils and shot it. He followed the bloody trail till two feet took the place of four. The dog was a woman witch. ”

“ ONE of the most popular outdoor sports in Europe in the old times was witchcraft. It was brought across the Atlantic and had its vogue in New England. It was ever a popular pastime in darkest Africa. So it is not surprizing that the belief should have been firmly rooted in the new world many generations before the white men came. ”

“ The many killings among the Cherokee as a result of their belief in witches, resulted, in 1824, in a law making it murder for the slaying of an alleged witch, and providing a whipping for any one charging another with being a witch. ”