Their deity, Cudragny, was supposed to tell them the weather, and, if angry, to throw dust into their eyes.
They thought that, when they died, they would go to the stars, and after that, little by little, sink with the stars to earth again, to where the happy hunting grounds lie on the far horizon of the world.

To correct their ignorance, Cartier told them of the true God and of the verities of the Christian faith.

In the end the savages begged that he would baptize them, and on at least one occasion a great flock of them came to him, hoping to be received into the faith.

But Cartier, as he says, having nobody with him 'who could teach them our belief and religion,' and doubting, also, the sincerity of their sudden conversion, put them off with the promise that at his next coming he would bring priests and holy oil and cause them to be baptized.
The Stadacona Indians seem to have lived on terms of something like community of goods.

Their stock of food--including great quantities of pumpkins, peas, and corn--was more or less in common.