Note 141 — Chapter III

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.