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53 The Cherokees who worship the sun, moon &c. have very wild ideas respecting the soul after death. Some pretend that the souls on leaving the bodies they first inhabited, enter into others, larger, or smaller, according to the part they acted in the first, -- That those bodies thus animated by departed souls, become less and less, less & less every year, till at length they vanish in air and cease to exist.

Others say that souls, after death, inhabit, or appear in any bodies they please as, of a crow, an owl, a snake, or even of a child, and linger about the place where they died, as long as the respective bodies lived there. They then go back to another place where the bodies had lived &c. till at last on arriving at the places where the bodies were born, they continued their (sic) as long as the respective bodies had done, and then departed to the winter-region to be forever miserable, or as some say, ceased to exist.  
But those who deny the worship of the sun, and adore only the Three Beings above, say that the priests who pray only to them i.e.to God above, and all others not guilty of lying, stealing, fighting, murdering, fornication, adultery, witchcraft, or causing abortion and destroying children &c. when they die will go above to God, where it will always be light and pleasant.  
But all such as are guilty of the above crimes, together with all who pray to the Devil (by praying to the Devil they may mean pray directly to him in order to prevent his hurting them, or praying to the sun &c. in obedience to the Devil) will go when they die to Tsu ski no i, i.e. the place of wicked spirits, and be forever tormented.  The place is dark and fiery, and when the miserable inmates want food, they will be fed with coals of fire, and when they want drink some flaming liquid will be poured down them.  They will always be screaming and yelling in agony.  As for those killed in war, they are always flying about, with their heads down ward, whooping and screaming, but will never be permitted to rest.  citation: Nutsawi Johnson Pridget,