pa-sa-is-kit-a

Updated: May 15, 2025

The day the last one is cast aside the families go to the appointed place. The evening of the first day the ceremony of taking the “Black Drink,” Pa-sa-is-kit-a, is endured. This drink was described to me as having both a nauseating smell and taste. It is probably a mixture similar to that used by the Creek in the last century at a like ceremony.

Clay MacCauley - The Seminole Indians of Florida: Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532