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The man took a draught of the fiery liquid, but sooner than taken he filled the air with the most horrid cries; a lambent flame & a light smoke immediately issued from his mouth -- The fiery waters of earth, says the Evil One, possesses the same qualities as this. Any one might as well drink red hot unclear as to drink alcohol (called by the Indians? fire water) --- The next object the Prophet discovered was a woman being led by the Evil One between two great kettles? -- Her unclear shrieks coined that she was in great torment for she begged the Evil One to give some colder places -- she was too hot, she was afraid that she would be consumed by the heat. He then took her & plunged her into the other kettle. But in a moment her cries again filled the air, she was complaining that it was too cold. This woman, says the Prophet, was a witch she shall always be tormented in this manner forever & ever, at one time being plunged into a boiling liquid, the next into liquid upon the point of freezing. This also, he says, shall be the fate of all wizards and witches. The next incident witnessed by the Prophet, was the calling together of a husband & wife, who, when on earth were in the habit of continually disputing with one another. Having set them near one another, the Devil commanded them to dispute & contradict one another, now, as they were accustomed also on earth. They did indeed commence, but had not proceeded far, before their tongues began to run out, so that they could no longer talk. Thus? says Jimmy Johnson?, the Prophet said would be the fate of such characters -- The Great Spirit has prepared a way for all to get to heaven. Therefor when any does wrong, they must repent & put themselves in the right way for unless they do it, they will get lost. Gamyodyok? was very particular in explaining to us the course which departed spirits were accustomed to take, upon their unclear from unclear unclear tenement?. There was a road which led upward, in a short distance the roads forked, one keeping a straight forward course, while the other angled off in an entire different direction. At the point where these roads separated, were stationed two men. One a man sent from the Great Spirit, the other a man of the Evil One. Whenever a person died they took this road leading upwards, having arrived at the point of the seperation of the two roads, if the traveller was a wicked person, by a motion of the man from the Evil One, they