Legends and Tales from Angmagsalik. 279 



The angakok had an owl as his tartok, and it flew in front of 

 the kaiakers, when they approached him. When they struck at it 

 with the paddle, they capsi/ed and drowned. Thus it fared with 

 them all except two small kaiakers, to whom the angakok said 

 that they had better row in towards land, which they did, sobbing. 



The angakok now journeyed home and told them how nearly 

 he had escaped being killed. — '^NagiokV 



28. KARRAK 



told Ьз' PitUja. 



A tartok had once stabbed his angakok, and so he went in up 

 country to revenge himself on his tartok. 



The angakok Karrak had once being лvorking at an iron dart- 

 point, and his tartok, who was a Timersek and was called Ibak, had 

 got a headache from it, and thought he would revenge himself on 

 his master by stabbing him. 



When Karrak now prepared to perform angakok incantations, 

 the lamps were extinguished, but the tartok did not come, and this 

 happened time after time. Ibak never came any more when Karrak 

 performed angakok arts. 



One evening when Karrak had thus tried his arts without being 

 able to make Ibak appear, Karrak sat down on the platform, after 

 the lamps had been lit, and leaned up against a pillar, saying: 

 "There is certainly something the matter with Ibak, as he will not 

 come". As he sat there chatting with a man who sat just facing 

 him, he heard something move under the platform. He looked to 

 see what it was, but could not see anything. 



Ibak, however, was sitting under the platform and was getting 

 his long knife (dorkotap) in order, that is by sticking a piece of 

 human flesh on it. He now^ stabbed his angakok with the knife so 

 that the point stuck out through his belly. The angakok leapt up 

 and thereby chanced to stab the man who was sitting facing him, 

 in the knee with the knife which stuck out through his belly. 



He drew out the knife and passed his hand over the hole in 

 his belly, whereupon it healed; he did likewise with the hole at 

 the back ; but it would not heal, because human flesh had touched it. 

 However, the wound was afterwards healed by dint of angakok arts. 



In spring Karrak said: "I am going inland to take vengeance 

 on Ibakasik". He took a little, but very sharp, knife with him, and 

 journeyed, accompanied by two Inersuaks, who were his tartoks, to 

 Ibak's dwelling-place. 



