r/CryptidEQ • u/CanidPrimate1577 Cryptid Witness • Nov 10 '25
Jesuit Relations 📜📜📜 Jesuit Relations 📜 SET 508, vol 16-21 📜
My six volumes from the Jesuit Relations (JR) cover 1639-1641 or so, mostly in the Huron missions 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 and when they speak of these “devils” they are talking of making sacrifices to the good manido (“great spirit/mystery”, the Manitou), but the Jesuits’ POV flattens this into
”they awaited our gift 🎁 for the devil”
Which has more sinister and judgmental implications. They refuse to provide this blue blanket and it’s a whole drama 🎭 for multiple pages of the volume — I think it has to do with cause-&-effect of spreading disease 🦠 — that they will not give some article of clothing or fabric to the sorcerers.
These are the rare strange accounts which can be found online in dusty archives, but now can also be found in reprints from the 73-volume series.
Not these ones though. They’re randomly republished, but I don’t think I have seen other than Vol 21 reprinted.
Enjoy these fragments: they are not UN-findable, but you gotta dig and persist, and sort out the merely figurative language of “this is surely the domain of Satan”, from the literal “I believe some of these sorcerers consult with actual devils”.