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286 G. Holm and Johan Petkrsen. 



day went to the other man's house, and the other took his bird-dart 

 and went across the ice to the first man's house to sleep with his 

 wife. When he came out on the ice, he heard a sea-bear growling 

 under the ice. He entered the other man's house; but they did not 

 put out the lamps because they were afraid, and he soon went home 

 again. When he had got midway between Puiloriolok and Ingmikertok^ 

 he saw too men standing on a mountain. One of them wore a bear- 

 skin garb, the other a water-tight skin garb with white embroidery. 

 The first of these was the Moon, the other Nelarsik. He now went 

 into the house at Puilortolok, where there lived two old women, 

 whom the Moon and Nelarsik could not suffer, because, although 

 they were in mourning, they would look out through the passage- 

 way when the kaiaks went out. The man, who was an angakok 

 and only had one eye, set about to perform tornak arts. He began 

 to strike the piece of skin he had in his hand ; the dried skin and 

 the drum began to move, and there was a whistling in his hair. 



He told them to light the lamps, for it was not he that was 

 doing the tornak arts. They heard someone coming along the pas- 

 sage-way, and so he bade him that came to go to that side of him 

 where there was no drum. It was the Moon that came, and the 

 angakok told the others to beat it. They beat it with their boots, 

 and it flew up above Puilortolok. 



When the people fled out of the house because they were afraid, 

 the Moon wanted to take the house with his kapotak; but now all 

 the tartoks came up and bade him desist. The one-eyed angakok 

 summoned a big tartok who was called Ikilerfik, and who was living 

 on an island outside Kulusuk. When Ikilerfik wanted to take away 

 the kapotak from the Moon, and twisted it so that it well-nigh broke^ 

 the Moon said in a whining voice: "Shall water fall no more, and 

 shall seals bear young no more?" The tartok now let go the kapotak^ 

 and the Moon flew up in the air again. 



32. THE VISIT OF THE TWO ANGAKUT TO THE MURDERERS 



told by Adlagdlak. 



There were once two brothers who were angakut. When their 

 neighbours went out in kaiaks, they never came home again. Once 

 when the two brothers went up the tjord, they heard someone calling: 

 "mata! mata Г and then they caught sight of a big high house. 

 When they drew near the house, they saw that there were a number 

 of kaiakers at home. Five men came down to receive them, and 

 urged them to step ashore and go up to the house. On their way 



