Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word scheitan.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
chained_bear commented on the word scheitan
"Pfizenmayer wrote in Siberian Man and Mammoth (1939): 'Like men, the animals avoid this tundra, said to be bottomless; and all life dies out here. The Tunguses and the Yakuts are firmly convinced that the chief scheitan—the lord of hell—lives in the nether regions deep under these malignant swamps, and their tales about him tell of such places.'"
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 30
September 20, 2008