The Mide'wiwin Or "grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
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After procuring the services ofsuch a person and making a satisfactory agreement with him, he may beenabled to purchase from him some special formulæ for which he isdistinguished. The instruction embraces a résumé of the traditionspreviously given, the various uses and properties of magic plants andcompounds with which the preceptor is familiar, and conversationsrelative to exploits performed in medication, incantation, and exorcism. Sometimes the candidate is enabled to acquire new “medicines”... to add tohis list, and the following is a translation of the tradition relatingto the origin of ginseng (Aralia quinquefolia, Gr. ), the so-called “manroot, ” held in high estimation as of divine origin. In Fig. 3 ispresented a pictorial representation of the story, made by Ojibwa, a Midē´ priest of White Earth, Minnesota. The tradition purportsto be an account of a visit of the spirit of a boy to the abode ofDzhibai´Man´idō, “the chief spirit of the place of souls, ” calledNe´-ba-gi´-zis, “the land of the sleeping sun.
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