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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] In the language of the Indian priests or medais, a mystical use of the names of various objects in the animated creation is made, in order to clothe their arts with the degree of respect and authority, which ignorant nations are ready to pay to whatsoever they do not fully understand; in other words, that which is mysterious. Thus, in the medicen songs of the Odjib-was. a wolf is called, not Myeengun, the popular term, but Moh-hwag. It is believed the priests of the ancient Mohegans made similar distortion of their words, for similar ends, and that the

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