Mishe mishe

• Italian mise: I, me (emphatic); I am.

• Exodus 3.4: Mosheh, Mosheh ("Moses, Moses!"), words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush. Early lives of St Patrick said that he resembled Moses in four ways.

• Hebrew Mosheh: Moses → said to mean "drawn out of the waters"

• mishe mishe to tauftauf: reminiscent of a walky-talky message, in which the operator identifies himself as well as the receiever so as to clarify the intention of a transmission in a crowded channel. It as though Issy and HCE are communicating with one another via the chimney flue.

• "Mirror, Mirror!": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.Issy is always accompanied by her Venus mirror.

• German mischen: to mix