It was known as that because in the olden times they didn’t have much so they used logs and sticks to make things and then that was the name
One main central belief is reincarnation
Citizen Genêt Affair, incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain.