Wehixamukes (Unami Wehixamukèsa, anglicized 'Crazy Jack') is the great trickster culture-hero of Lenape oral tradition. He appears as a foolish, lazy, and absurdly literal-minded young man who takes every command at face value, with results that swing between calamity and marvel: in one episode his literalism causes him to kill two of his own people, while in others he single-handedly defeats enemy war-parties he himself has carelessly alerted. His adventures form one of the two principal Lenape trickster cycles catalogued by John Bierhorst, and in the closing tales he meets his death, in one telling driven into the earth by a falling tree. Recorded from Lenape storytellers chiefly in Oklahoma and preserved in Bierhorst's editions, Wehixamukes stands apart from the manitou spirits as a human-scaled hero of the storytelling tradition rather than a being of the Big House cult.