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Gabriel Sagard, The Long Journey to the Country of the Hurons, Edited by George M.
Gabriel Sagard, a Récollet missionary was one of the earliest European visitors to the Great Lakes region.
With the same object they also throw some into the water for certain spirits which they suppose have authority there, or rather for the soul of the water (for they believe everything material and destitute of life has a soul which comprehends), and they pray to it in their customary way to be of good courage and make them catch plenty of fish.23 Sagard was typical of his Christian compatriots in assuming that only humans had souls and treating all other elements of the natural world as devoid of spirit.
During his journey to Huronia in 1623, Sagard noticed the geographic specificity of these Manitous: They believe also that there are certain spirits which bear rule over one place, and others over another, some over rivers, others over journeying, trading, warfare, feasts and diseases, and many other matters.
Gabriel Sagard, Sagard’s Long Journey to the Country of the Hurons, ed.