![]() For over two years she moved with the Comanche band from camp to camp, at times finding kindness and at other times having to fight for her life. Once inside the camp, Rachel was forced to work as a hide tanner. The Comanche men dragged her newborn baby through cactii until it was dead, and she endured repeated "outrages" (rapes). While Cynthia Ann, James Plummer, and John Parker were adopted into the tribe and learned to live as Comanches, Rachel Plummer's fate was horrific. They killed most of the men and women and kidnapped Rachel Plummer, Cynthia Ann Parker, James Plummer, and John Parker. The Parker and Plummer families had built a protective fort around their farm, but the Comanches raided it, anyway. ![]() One of the most famous kidnappings happened near today's Mexia, Limestone County, Texas in 1836. This meteorite was also used by the Taovayans for medicine it's interesting to note that the theft of the medicine stone coincided with increased disease and warfare for both the Wichitas and the Comanches. The largest of these stones was po-a-cat-le-pi-le-carre, a 1,600 lbs iron boulder that was stolen in 1806 by Henry Glass, an Anglo American trader, whose expedition may have been paid for by John Sibley, the Indian Agent based in Natchitoches. They prayed and offered tributes to at least three meteorites in the North Texas prairies, which they named, signifying their importance. Like the Wichitas, the Comanches revered meteorites as medicine. The medicine people received tributes and in return, offered tokens that could act as medicine, such as a pouch filled with herbs or a special rock. Medicine men and Medicine women were the healers and soothsayers who helped individuals if they were sick, needed some metaphysical assistance (like love potions and the like), or desired guidance. ![]() The Comanche belief system relied on medicine. ![]()
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