wight

　

WordNet

1. hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
2. British slang for a scolding (同)wigging
3. an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel (同)Isle of Wight

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1. 人,人間
2. かつら(はげ隠し用・舞台用;英国では法官用;17~8世紀には一般に男子が用いた)

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Wight

Grouping	Legendary creature
Sub grouping	Undead
Similar creatures	Ghost, wraith
Country	England

Wight is a Middle English word, from Old English wiht, and used to describe a creature or living sentient being. It is akin to Old High German wiht, meaning a creature or thing.

In its original usage the word wight described a living human being. More recently, the word has been used within the fantasy genre of literature to describe undead or wraith-like creatures: corpses with a part of their decayed soul still in residence, often draining life from their victims. Notable examples of this include the undead Barrow-wights from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and the level-draining wights of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

The English word is cognate with other Germanic words such as Dutch wicht, German Wicht, Old Norse vættr, Norwegian vette, Swedish vätte, Danish vætte. Modern High German Wicht means 'small person, dwarf,' and also 'unpleasant person,' while in Low German the word means 'girl.' The Wicht, Wichtel or Wichtelchen of Germanic folklore is most commonly translated into English as an imp, a small, shy character who often does helpful domestic chores when nobody is looking (as in the Tale of the Cobbler's Shoes). These terms are not related to the English word witch. In Scandinavian folklore, too, wights are elusive creatures not unlike elves, capable of mischief as well as of help. In German and Dutch language the word Bösewicht or Booswicht points out an evildoer, "Bösewichte haben keine Lieder" means they (do not make merry) are unpleasant folk.

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin, wights are a category of undead creatures, usually humans or animals who have been killed and turned by the White Walkers (aka the Others) or by other wights. They have pallid skin, black hands, and fierce ice-blue eyes, and are described as being virtually impervious to all forms of attack, even forcibly amputated limbs are described as having sentience. Their only weaknesses are obsidian or Valyrian steel weapons and fire.

In literature and culture

Examples of the word used in classic English literature and poetry:

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1368-1372), The Reeve's Tale, line 4236, The Riverside Chaucer (3rd edition):

  "For [Aleyn] had swonken al the longe nyght, And seyde, 'Fare weel, Malyne, sweete wight!'"

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1368–1372), The Monk's Tale, line 380:

  "She kept her maidenhood from every wight

  To no man deigned she for to be bond."

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1368–1372), The Book of the Duchess, line 579:

  "Worste of alle wightes."

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1368–1372), Prologue of The Knight, line 72-73:

  "Ne neuere yet no vileynye he sayde

 In al his lyf vnto no manere wight.

• He was a verray parfit gentil knyght."

• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1379-1380), The House of Fame, line 1830-1831:

  "We ben shrewes, every wight,

  And han delyt in wikkednes."

• Edmund Spenser (1590–1596), The Faerie Queene, I.i.6.8-9:

  "That every wight to shrowd it did constrain,

  And this fair couple eke to shroud themselues were fain."

• William Shakespeare (c. 1602), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Sc. III:

  "O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

• William Shakespeare (c. 1603), Othello, Act II, Sc. I:

  "She was a wight, if ever such wight were"

• John Milton (1626), On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, verse vi:

  "Oh say me true if thou wert mortal wight..."

• Church of Scotland (1650), Scots Metrical Psalter, Psalm 18 verse xxvi:

  "froward thou kythst unto the froward wight..."

• Washington Irving (1820), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

  "In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity."

• Boris Sagal (1971), The Omega Man:

  The 'nocturnals' of Sagal's 1971 motion picture The Omega Man could be considered a filmic example of the wight.

• TSR (1974), Dungeons & Dragons "white box" set:

  The wight was described as being able to drain away energy levels on a touch.

• George R. R. Martin (1996), A Song of Ice and Fire series, Book I A Game of Thrones:

  "When he opened his mouth to scream, the wight jammed its black corpse fingers into Jon's mouth."

• George R. R. Martin (2005), A Song of Ice and Fire series, Book IV A Feast for Crows:

  "Who has been beyond the wall of death to see? Only the wights, and we know what they are like. We know."

• Ubisoft (2006), Heroes of Might and Magic 5:

  In the game wights are the 6th tier creature to the Necropolis faction. They have high health and attack points and even have an ability called Harm Touch where they can attack and kill at least 1 enemy every time with no retaliation.

• Ransom Riggs (2011), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children:

  "I can imagine a wight faking it."

See also

• Wraith
• Isle of Wight
• Jiangshi

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