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Reminscences of early Michigan History 1800's
streams for purposes of vengeance; that "Manesous, " or bad spirits in the form of -Sauk warriors, were hovering around their villages and camps and the flank of their hunting grounds, preventing them from being successful in the chase and bringing ill-fortune and discomfiture in a hundred ways. So great was their dread that when (as was frequently the case) they became possessed with the idea that the "Manesous" were in their immediate vicini tv, they would fly as if for their lives, abandoning everything, wigwams fish, game and all their camp equipage, and no amount of ridicule from the whites could convince them of their folly or induce them to stay and face the imaginary danger.
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