Editing Cajuns (section)

===Folk beliefs===
One folk custom is belief in a ''[[Traiteur (faith healer)|traiteur]]'', or healer, whose primary method of treatment involves the laying on of hands and of prayers. An important part of this folk religion, the ''traiteur''  combines Catholic prayer and medicinal remedies to treat a variety of ailments, including earaches, toothaches, warts, tumors, angina, and bleeding. Another is in the ''[[rougarou]]'', a version of a ''loup garou'' (French for [[werewolf]]), that will hunt down and kill Catholics who do not follow the rules of Lent. In some communities, the ''loup garou'' of legend has taken on an almost protective role. Children are warned that ''loups garous'' can read souls, and that they only hunt and kill evil men and women and misbehaved horses. The folkloric creature ''[[letiche]]'' is said to be the soul of an unbaptized infant<ref>{{cite book|title=Louisiana: A Guide to the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOSvzYLs3tMC&pg=PA94|year=1941|publisher=US History Publishers|isbn=978-1-60354-017-9|pages=94–}}</ref> or child raised by alligators<ref name="Thompson2010">{{cite book|author=Dave Thompson|title=Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HFYKKVMvxcC&pg=PT292|date=1 September 2010|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55490-682-6|pages=292–}}</ref> that haunts the bayous.