Daniel Brinton - The Lenâpé and their Legends

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.

Compare Loskiel, Geschichte , pp. 48, 49;

Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger , p. 472.

Heckewelder, MSS., says that he has often heard the lamentable cry, matta wingi angeln , "I do not want to die."

"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 .

David Brainerd, Life and Journal , pp. 400, 401.

Hist. Ind. Nations , p. 280.

Hist. and Statistics of the Indian Tribes , Vol. I, p. 358, seq.

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).

See Brainerd, Life and Journal , pp. 310, 312, 364, 398, 425, etc., and

Transactions of the American Philological Association , 1872, p. 158.

Penn, Letter to the Free Society of Traders, 1683, Sec. xii.

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.