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according to the advice of an old wise man. She then gave birth
to a son endowed with supernatural power as a kayaker (87).
Revenge by means of a „tupilak“ (24).
The skull of a seal used for making a boat invisible to people
on the shore (4).
The exercises, that had to be gone through by the future
angakok. The father teaching his son the last of them, which
was that of opening a grave and putting his hands into the flesh
of the deceased body. When thereafter a spark of light from the
setting sun was falling down, he ought to flee at once (45).
The angakok taken by the bear and the walrus; his descending
to the „arnakuagsak“ for the purpose of persuading her to send
the sea-animals to the surface of the ocean (56).
A man having an amulet hidden in the edging of his jacket,
able to be sent out and kill whomsoever of his enemies (68).
The old men offended by the inhospitableness they had been
met with, bewitched the house in order to produce discord among
its inmates (22).
Mingling reindeer hairs in the drinking water, in order to make
people be transformed into reindeer (17).
Filling the boots of a person with reptiles, spiders and vermin
for some purpose connected with sorcery or witchcraft (43).
In preparing the skin she practised witchcraft on it and spoke
thus: „when he (her son, with whom she had got angry) cuts thee
into thongs, when he cuts thee asunder, thou shalt snap and smite
his face (blind him) (2).
The widow, in order to be revenged, cut a piece of the loin,
and after having pronounced a spell upon it carried it to them by
way of a present, intending to work their destruction (32).
His friend informed him (concerning witchcraft), that he ought
to dry a morsel of a dead mans flesh and put it beneath the point
of the hunter’s harpoon, who then from a clever hunter might turn
into a very poor one. The bladder he was likewise to dry, and if
ever he happened to get an enemy, he was to blow it up, and,
while the other was asleep, press the air out upon him (57).
The angakok caught the witch (i. e. her soul or ghost invisible
to others) by thrusting the harpoon at her and begging the others
to hold the harpoon string fast (69).
A man with his family travelled very far southward. They
wintered with some people, who turned out to have been bears
in the shape of men . . . their custom, that visitors should lick out
the oil of the lamps on entering (19).
The „amarok“ (wolf) as the „Lord of strength“ made the
poor orphan boy become strong and vigorous by exercises, twisting
his tail round his body and throwing him down (1).
The brothers, in order to fetch back their sister from her
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