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be stationed in different parts of the firmament and prayers are frequently directed to them. - May not these have been at first distinguished persons whom after death the people deified? Certain birds and creeping things also received homage; but only as intermediators, never as objects of direct power or worship. There is, furthermore, a belief among the Cherokee in various superhuman existences, not properly coming within the range of their religious theories. It may be more correct to class them apart, as their fairy superstitions and their demonology: they are in consequence postponed for a separate notice.