shietan

Updated: June 16, 2025

So spake the elder after the evening prayers of a day even more exhausting than its predecessors, and Myles Standish, leaning against the wall for very weakness, muttered, "Nay, what sin have these women and children wrought? What odds between a God like that and the Shietan of the salvages? Nay, Elder, thou hast not bettered the faith my mother lived and died by."

Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin - Standish of Standish: A story of the Pilgrims