Remarks by one friar circa 1690 suggest that they may have maintained some reliance on their precontact religious beliefs, although his testimony is suspect. The French at Mobile found the religious practices of Apalachee who migrated there from San Luis and Escambe scarcely distinguishable from those of Christianized Europeans. The Apalachee remained steadfastly attached to their traditional ways of curing. Documentation attests to their continued reliance on shamans and in using remedies that native healers had discovered. The Christians' reliance on prayer to God and to the saints was probably added, and may well have had an equivalent in native practices.
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