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Land Spirits: Native and Immigrant, (Curse of Kaskaskia), part 5

-> CURSE OF KASKASKIA
Back in 1735, Kaskaskia was a centre of Mississippi River commerce, with a large population of French settlers. A rich fur trader by the name of Bernard ran a trading post on the outskirts of town, and even though he didn't like the local Indians much, he hired them to do the menial work around the post. Turns out that one of these Indians had been educated by French missionaries, and Bernard, against all of his instincts, started to take a shine to him. Typical Frenchman, thinking anything is improved by contact with something French.
Problems arose when Bernard's daughter, Marie-the apple of his eye, since his wife wasn't around anymore-also started to take a shine to this Indian.
Real problems arose when Bernard figured out that the Indian felt the same way.
Well, it was one thing to enjoy having the Indian around to work for him, and something entirely different to contemplate his little white princess being defiled by the touch of a red man. Bernard canned the Indian and made sure he was blacklisted around town. Nobody in Kaskaskia would give him work. Eventually, he left town, but not before promising Marie that he would be back to claim her.
A year later, after Marie had withstood the courtships of several of the local French young men about town, a group of Indians passed through Kaskaskia. Among them, and keeping himself disguised to avoid trouble, was Marie's loverboy. They got together and headed north, out of Kaskaskia and away from Bernard.
This really set Bernard off, and he got together a posse and charged off after them, eventually running the pair to ground near Cahokia. Unhinged by this point, Bernard ordered his trapper cronies to tie the Indian to a log and set him adrift to drown in the Mississippi. Over Marie's protests they did, and before the Indian died, he swore a curse.
Before the year was out, he said, Bernard would be dead, and he and Marie would be together forever. Kaskaskia and all of its land would be ruined, its churches and houses destroyed, and its dead turned out of their graves.
Fast forward a year. Marie died, and Bernard challenged a business partner to a duel. One pistol shot later he was dead, too.
Over the next hundred years, as the river's channels shifted, Kaskaskia suffered so many floods that it became cut off from the mainland. People began to abandon the town, and it slowly died.
It wasn't until 1973 that the church and altar were flooded and destroyed; long before that, the cemetery had been washed away and all the bodies lost to the river.
You can still find Kaskaskia on a map, but as of the last census, its population was-guess.
Nine.
Nine people, in a place that was the first state capital of Illinois.
That is why you don't mess with curses. You just get out of the way.