He is thus spoken of in Campanius, Account of New Sweden, Book III, chap. xi. Compare my Myths of the New World, p. 190.
Footnote_135_135
Brainerd, Life and Journal, p. 395.
Footnote_136_136
His statements are in the Calls of the Mass Hist Soc, Vol. X (1st Series), p. 108.
Footnote_137_137
Wm Strachey, Historie of Travaile into Virginia, p. 98
Footnote_138_138
Brainerd, Life and Travels, p. 394.
Footnote_139_139
Charles Beatty, Journal, p. 44.
Footnote_140_140
One, about five inches in height, of a tough, argillaceous stone, is figured and described by Dr. C. C. Abbott, in the American Naturalist, October, 1882. It was found in New Jersey.
Footnote_141_141
From the same root, tschip, are derived the Lenape tschipilek, something strange or wonderful; tschepsit, a stranger or foreigner; and tschapiet, the invocation of spirits. Among the rules agreed upon by Zeisberger's converted Indians was this: "We will use no tschapiet, or witchcraft, when hunting." (De Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, p. 379.)
The root tschitsch indicates repetition, and applied to the shadow or spint of man means as much as his double or counterpart. A third word for soul was the verbal form w'tellenapewoagan, "man – his substance;" but this looks as if it had been manufactured by the missionaries.
Footnote_142_142
Compare Loskiel, Geschichte, pp. 48, 49;
Footnote_143_143
Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, p. 472.
Footnote_144_144
Heckewelder, MSS., says that he has often heard the lamentable cry, matta wingi angeln, "I do not want to die."
Footnote_145_145
"As for the Powaws," says the native Mohegan, the Rev. Sampson Occum, in his account of the Montauk Indians of Long Island, "they say they get their art from dreams." Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., Vol. X, p. 109. Dr. Trumbull's suggested affinity of powaw with Cree tàp-wayoo, he speaks the truth; Nar, taupowauog, wise speakers, is, I think, correct, but the latter are secondary senses. They were wise, and gave true counsel, who could correctly interpret dreams. Compare the Iroquois katetsens, to dream; katetsiens, to practice medicine, Indian fashion. Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Iroquoise.
Footnote_146_146
David Brainerd, Life and Journal, pp. 400, 401.
Footnote_147_147
Hist. Ind. Nations, p. 280.
Footnote_148_148
Hist. and Statistics of the Indian Tribes, Vol. I, p. 358, seq.
Footnote_149_149
Wassenaer's Description of the New Netherlands (1631), in Doc. Hist of New York, Vol. III, pp 28, 40. Other signs of serpent worship were common among the Lenape. Loskiel states that their cast-off skins were treasured as possessing wonderful curative powers (Geschichte, p. 147), and Brainerd saw an Indian offering supplications to one (Life and Journal, p. 395).
Footnote_150_150
See Brainerd, Life and Journal, pp. 310, 312, 364, 398, 425, etc., and
Footnote_151_151
Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1872, p. 158.
Footnote_152_152
Penn, Letter to the Free Society of Traders, 1683, Sec. xii.
Footnote_153_153
On the literary works of Zeisberger, see Rev. E. de Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, chap. xlviii, who gives a full account of all the printed works, but does not describe the MSS.
