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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 ,,ainarok" (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 



