Curious to say, the Indians took little precautions to guard against such surprises, but thought they were protected by their manitous or guardian spirits.
It can be easily seen that in this Indian land of mysterious agencies, of manitous and spirits, the medicine-man and conjuror exercised a great power among old and young, chiefs and women.
Manitous often take the forms of animals when they come back to life.
They were both Manitous and could do many wonderful things.
Presiding Manitous of all, save man, that inhabit the earth, the air, the water, hear and obey the voice of Michabou.
Indeed, I sold so many Manitous that I began to entertain a deep respect for my own commercial faculties.
In fear and trembling, I wrote, suggesting to Mr. Hitchcock that I had a girl friend from England stopping with me in Switzerland, and that two Manitous would surely be better than one as an advertizement.
There are other manitous without local habitation, some good, some evil, countless in number and indefinite in attributes.
There are local manitous of streams, rocks, mountains, cataracts, and forests.
They stretched out on their backs along the slope, and stared up at the newly dignified Manitous in delicious silence.
The manitous of the river and the wood were offended with the medicine-man because of his stubbornness and cruelty, although he suffered greatly because of the death his daughter died, and he the cause of it.
It was he who, in the early dawn, aroused the sleeping camp with the beating of his drum and the chanting of incantations; who conferred with the great Manitous of the buffalo to divine when the time for the chase had come.
Areskoui * and the manitouswere not favorable to us.
Six hundred and eighty miles seemed a long way to travel in winter, through a desolate land, only to tell your most intimate friend that you are not afraid of manitous and shades of the departed.
Because you had told me that the Forbidden River was unexplored and never visited, being haunted by Manitous and shades of the dead, I turned into it and travelled up it--I thought that I should find safety there.
The Oneidas have not forgotten the storms of other seasons; they have not forgotten the times of starving, when neither the Manitous of the redman nor the God of the white man came to help.
Have you forgotten the talk of the holy Fathers, when they told you the words of the Book of the Great Spirit, who is to all your Manitous and Okis as the sun is to the stars.
As I came down the hills of the west to-day I saw the green tops waving in the wind, and I was glad, for I knew that my brothers would feast in plenty, that their Manitous have been kind.
I told Sprigg the Manitous were loving him all the time, but he would not believe me.
He perceived that, while those invisible mortals were shadowed forth with such distinctness, the Manitous themselves, with the light thrown full and strong upon them, were as shadowless in that light as air itself.
We are the Manitousof the Great Spirit, and what he bids be done, he bids uncounseled, and would have done unquestioned.
And the Manitous told me how it had happened that Sprigg was such a bad boy; it was because his father and mother had loved him unwisely; and, as they had loved him, so had they trained him.
Again closing his eyes for a few moments, to open them again and add:) The Manitous chase nobody but bad people, and chase them only to make them good.
Then Sprigg died--passed away into nothing--chased by the Manitous out of the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manitous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
