280 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



When they arrived there, they looked in at the ^Yindow and 

 saw that Ibak's lamp was extinguished — Ibak and his family lived 

 on the right side — and that Ibak was sitting with his head bent 

 forward, as if he were sleeping. On the left side the lamp was 

 burning, and drumming and dancing were going on. Karrak sank 

 down into the earth and came up inside the house ; he seized Ibak 

 by the hair, which he twisted around his wrist, and stabbed him 

 in the throat with the knife, on which he had stuck a piece of 

 human flesh, with such force that a loud explosive sound was heard. 

 When Ibak was nearly dying, and his housemates began to weep, 

 Karrak sank down again into the earth and journeyed home. 



Karrak now performed angakok arts ten times over; but his 

 tartok (Ibak) did not come. So he journeyed again to the place 

 where Ibak lived, and when he entered the house, he found Ibak's 

 family weeping, because he had become so thin and was nearly 

 dying. Ibak's wife said to Karrak: "Now your tartok is about to 

 die". "Are you about to die?" asked Karrak. "Yes! I have been 

 stabbed in the throat!" answered Ibak. Karrak said: "/Ce! kel kel 

 Who has stabbed you?", though it was he himself who had done it. 



Karrak now set himself to perform angakok arts, while he was 

 there on a visit, and when the lamps had been extinguished and 

 he saw visions under the influence of the arts, he breathed on Ibak, 

 who then came to life again. Karrak travelled home, when Ibak 

 had recovered, and did not stab him any more. 



29. A TUPILEK STORY 



told by Kululuk 



In olden days an old childless married couple came here from 

 the south and wintered up here. When spring came, a bear was 

 caught by the people who lived in the nearest dwelling-place up 

 the fjord. The old folks now travelled up to them to get some of 

 the bear to eat; but when they had entered the house, the man 

 who had caught the bear said : "Who in the world Avanls to have 

 these old folks as guests?" However, they gave them some bear's 

 flesh and blubber; but the old people did not eat of it, but tied it 

 up to make a tupilek of it. When the bear's paws were boiled, the 

 old people said: "If they onl}' would give us some of them!", and 

 when the food was divided amongst the guests, they did receive a 

 couple of toes. But they did not eat these either, but took them 

 home with them. 



