Part 15

Wahwun, “egg” (P.); M. _wâû_; A. _woñwan_.

Wappilatwan, “toadstool” (P.); punningly applied as an epithet to _Lappilatwan_, _q.v._ See _wechkutonébit_.

Waʿsis, “child” (P.); cp. A. _awoñsis_.

Wʾchipi, “East wind” (P.).

Webetumekw, “shark” (M.).

Wechkutonébit, “he sits with his mouth open” (P.); parti., 3 p., singular. See _Lappilatwan_ and _Wappilatwan_.

Wegadusk, “northern lights” (M.).

Wʾnagʾmeswuk, “fairies” (P.); small beings in human form of a benevolent character.

Wichkwîdlakunchich, “small dish of bark” (P.).

Wîgît, “he, they live or lives” (P.); parti., 3 p., sing. and plural. The stem _wig_, “dwell, live,” is common to all the Algic idioms. Cp. _wigwâm_, “a house.”

Wiguladumuch, “elves”; pl. -_uk_ (M.).

Winpe, a Pass. evil spirit, perhaps cogn. with M. _Winsit_, “devil.”

Wîwĭlmekw, a Pass. horned monster, living in the water.

Wuchoʿsen, “north wind” (P.). This word denotes a fabulous eagle which causes the wind by the motion of his wings.

Wut, “that” (P.).

Owing to lack of space, this Glossary contains only the most important Indian words which appear in the English text. No attempt has been made to explain the Indian headings grammatically, nor the text of quoted poems. P.

OTHER WORKS BY CHARLES GODFREY LELAND

The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams, 1850 Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, 1868 The English Gypsies and Their Language, 1872 English Gypsey Ballads, 1873 Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1881 The Minor Arts, 1881 The Gypsies, 1883 The Algonquin Legends of New England, 1884 (2d edition 1885) Dictionary of Jargon and Slang (in collaboration with Prof. Barrère), 1891 Gypsey Sorcery, 1891 Legends of Florence, 2d series, 1895–6 Hans Breitmann in Tyrol, 1895 Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land, 1895 Mending and Repairing, 1896 One Hundred Profitable Arts (issued as a series of handbooks) Legends of Virgil, 1899 The Gothic Mother Goose (in preparation) Flaxius (in preparation)

OTHER WORKS BY

JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE

Notes on the Language of the Eastern Algonkin Tribes, in the American Journal of Philology, ix. pp. 310–316, 1888 Archæology in Turkey, in the New York Independent, Dec. 6, 1888 The Linguistic Position of the Osmanli Turkish, in Johns Hopkins University Circular, April, 1891 MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN, an historical study of the Fifth Chapter of Daniel, with translation of the Cyrus Cylinder and the Annals of Nabonidus, Baltimore, 1893 The Syntax of the Assyrian Preposition Ina, in the Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, April, 1895, pp. ccxviii-ccxxvi The Book of Psalms, English Translation of Wellhausen’s Notes, in the Polychrome Edition of the Old Testament, Leipzig, 1895 Brasluniau o Bagdad, in the Drych (Welsh Newspaper), March 5, 1896 The Passamaquoddy Wampum Records, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, pp. 479–495, 1897 Old Testament Notes, in the Journal of Biblical Literature, xvi. pp. 175–6, 1897 The Syntax of the Assyrian Preposition Ana, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, xviii. pp. 355–6, 1897 Some Passamaquoddy Documents in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, xi. nr. 15, pp. 369–377, 1898 On Daniel viii. 11–12, in Journal of Biblical Literature, xvii. pp. 203 ff. 1898 Assyrian Prepositional Usage, Journal of the American Oriental Society, xx. pp. 1–11, 1899 A CRITICAL COMMENTARY on the Book of Daniel, Leipzig, 1899 On Psalm ii. 12, in Journal of Biblical Literature, xix. pp. 1–4, 1900 Forgotten Indian Place-Names in the Adirondacks, Journal American Folklore, 1900, pp. 123–128 Some Passamaquoddy Witchcraft Tales, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, xxxviii. pp. 181–189, 1900 The Unilingual Inscriptions K. 138 and K. 3232 translated from the Sumerian, Journal of the American Oriental Society, xxi. pp. 1–22, 1900 Notes on Passamaquoddy Literature, in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, xiii. pp. 381–386, 1901 Notes on the Modern Minsi Delaware Dialect, American Journal of Philology, xxi. pp. 295–302, 1901 The Modern Dialect of the Canadian Abenakis, in Miscellanea Linguistica in Onore di Graziodio Ascoli, pp. 343–362, 1901

FLAXIUS, OR LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF AN IMMORTAL

BY CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, F.R.S.L., A.M. (Harvard) &c.

Published by P. WELLBY, LONDON.

“It is not so much the spirit of Breitmann which animates these pages as that of Pantagruel. From the President of the United States, Roosevelt, he goes to Hamlet and resolves to visit Hades. The tale of Flaxius and the Were-wolf is a brilliant narrative.... Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with graceful impartiality. The chapter on the Bookseller is among the most charming in the work.... It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a philosopher seeking _la vraie verité_, a philosopher whose sympathy is very human, and who has in spite of all his erudition ... something of the naïve spontaneous pen of his Teutonic rival, Hans Breitmann.”

Condensed from a review of 150 lines in the _London Academy_.

“The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and surprise in its humorous ideas, as well as in its more pitiful and thoughtful moods.” “The whole is a literary entertainment of a rare and delicate kind. Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at the same time most spiritual of _jeux d’esprit_.”--The (London) _Free Lance_.

“An extremely pleasant and agreeable book.... No one who cares for curious customs presented in a quaint and entrancing manner will miss ‘Flaxius: Leaves from the Life of an Immortal.’”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

Transcriber’s Note:

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Chapter and Canto headings, printed in gothic font, are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Letters that have both an accent and macron are shown within brackets, like this: [´ē]. Words may have inconsistent hyphenation and use of diacriticals.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially; except for the Glossary, footnotes were moved to the end of the chapter. Partially printed punctuation and diacriticals were completed. Misspelled words were not corrected. The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’ In the Appendix, the English translation was moved to follow the related section of Native language.