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eight or ten feet height. When these are brought, the conjurer maker a fire of unclear, and throws into a terrapin shell full of tobacco, as a sacrifice to the Woman of the East, entreating her to send warm weather. If she complies with the request, __ as, it is said, she always does, __ an all night dance is held in honour of her.

When the weather became too warm, the conjurer would pray to a great red man in the north, to send his cold, and cool the air; __ sacrificing, at the same time, to his honour, Spanish oak and ivy leaves.

If the conjurer desired to learn whether high winds were rising, he would build a fire, as for sacrifice, and sprinkle it with old tobacco. If the wind were to be destructive, the smoke would fly in every direction but if not, it would mount straight upward.

When the conjurer saw a storm gathering which threatened to bow down the trees and hunt the corn, he would light his pipe, and going out into the open