Note 12 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews.

Mooney witnessed a confirmation among the Cherokees of the Eastern Band, in North Carolina: “A man standing one night upon a fish trap was scented by a wolf, which came so near that the man was compelled to shoot it. He at once went home and had the gun exorcised by a conjurer.” Myths of the Cherokees, 448.