Chapter Talismans to Tammany of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The induction is borrowed from Heuterus, Rerum Burgundearum, iv., a translation of which into English, by E. Grimstone, appeared in 1607. The same trick was played by Haroun-al-Raschid on the merchant Abou Hassan (Arabian Nights, “The Sleeper Awakened”); and by Philippe the Good of Burgundy. (See Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, II. ii. 4; see also The Frolicksome Duke or the Tinker’s Good Fortune, a ballad. See Percy: Reliques.)

N.B.—Beaumont and Fletcher wrote a kind of sequel to this comedy, called The Tamer Tamed, in which Petruchio is supposed to marry a second wife, by whom he is hen-pecked (1647).

The Honeymoon, a comedy by Tobin (1804), is a similar plot; but the shrew is tamed with far less display of obstreperous self-will.

Tamino and Pamina, the two lovers who were guided by the magic flute through all worldly dangers to the knowledge of divine truth (or the mysteries of Isis).—Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1791).

Tammany, an Indian chief, called in the United States St. Tammany, and adopted as the tutelary genius of one branch of the democratic party. The chief was of the Delaware nation, and lived in the seventeenth century. He was a great friend of the Whites, and often restrained the violence of his warriors against them. His great motto was, “Union, in peace for prosperity, in war for defence.” It is said that he still appears at times, and discourses on political economy and social wisdom. St. Tammany’s Day is May 1. The Americans sometimes call their tutelar saint Tamendy, a corruption of Tammenund, the renowned chief.—F. Cooper.