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was not able to forget his mothers harsh words, though they were
adressed to his father only (53).
The man who killed his mother in revenge upon her having
made him blind became a kivigtok and made his appearance ages
thereafter, telling that he lived with his sister far off in the interior,
that she could not move any more, both of them being immensely
old, and that their housemates were terrible beings with heads like
seals (2).
A madman was seen walking on the surface of the water —
A girl came as kivigtok from the east across the country to the
westcoast and married the one of two lonely brothers. — A man
out of despair for having caused his cousin’s death went off,
intending to kill all what he met with. — Child monsters who are able
to devoure their parents and all their housemates. — A man was
revived by magic lays sung over his grave, but afterwards retired
to the underworld people. — An angakok conjuring an „angiak”
(child’s ghost). — A kivigtok woman with an angiak being
summoned by hearing her favourite song returned to her relatives, but
afterwards became mother to bear-cubs. — The „anginiartok” was
enabled from his childhood by magic to revive in case of perishing
in kayak (6, 26, 27, 39, 40, 51, 53, 70, 77, 78, 79).
Fools or naturals considered as clairvoyants (4, 28).
A young man in order to take vengeance on a wicked person
who had mocked him as a poor boy, learned the art of acquiring
the shape of a walrus whenever he wanted (7).
The mother of the young kayaker taught him how to avoid
his enemies: „If ever they venture to prosecute thee, take some
water out of the sea with thy left hand and moisten thy lips
with it“ (32).
A bird came flying out of a cave; one of them quickly got an
arrow from an orphan boy , who had just been practising
bow-shooting, and hit the bird with it; and when they came to look
more closely at it, the bird turned out to he one of the men (their
enemies, a wizard). They cut him to pieces and at once took out
his entrails. Part of them were sunk in the depths of the ocean,
and the rest brought to a place, on which the sun never shone (48).
In order to find a companion to help him he travelled about
examining the inside fur of the mans’ boots till he found one
without lice (54).
The grandmother gave the child as amulet a whetstone from
the inuarutligaks (dwarfs) saying: „Child, be as hard (invulnerable)
as this stone" (61).
The approaching enemies were observed in the reflection from
the water (by means of clairvoyance) (10).
A man, whose wife had been barren, at last got a son by
applying himself for help to an old magician (13).
A man, who had a barren wife, threw a sea-worm upon her,
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