Past experiences made it so easy for early European settlers to believe in the existence of monsters in the New World because they were had seen or heard of all these tales or depictions of monsters so they were afraid of what they would find. They found that natives mannerisms to be quite peculiar, they also had different skin tones and we’re uncivilized which overwhelmed some of them into grouping them in league with the evils that were always talked about in religion at the time. Some of the settlers became quite gullible too for they still knew nothing of this new world so when they got a chance they "...hungrily devoured the story of a local Native American Chicora..." they took it to be which led to number of complications with the Church.
