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cloth and says : give bread and give porridge ! — in vain ; 

 nothing comes. Then he again goes to the lord of the east 

 wind: the cloth is no good, give me some other compensation! 

 The lord of the east wind takes out a pair of scissors and 

 cuts in the air with them, whereupon a number of clothes fail 

 down. PerXerqoja-q takes the scissors with him home and on 

 the way he meets the old Sea-witch. Give me something to 

 drink, he says. She answers: yes, and I shall look after what 

 you have in your hands. When he had finished drinking he 

 proceeds on his way, and when he has come home, he takes 

 out the scissors and cuts in the air with them. But no 

 matter how much he cut, it was in vain, nothing fell down. 

 Again he went to the lord of the east wind and asked him to 

 make compensation. This time he gave him a big hammer ^ 

 and said: did you meet anyone on your way? Perkerqoja'q 

 answered: I asked the Sea-witch to give me some water to 

 drink. — Then that was the reason, said the other one, when 

 you began to drink. Do not say anything about the big ham- 

 mer if she wants any pay next time, but kill her with it! 

 FerÅerqoja-q sets off and meets the witch at home. He kills 

 her with the hammer. Then he takes those things which the 

 witch had charged for giving him a drink: a table-cloth, a 

 pair of scissors and a lamb — all of it he takes with him 

 home, and after he has gone in, he takes to patting the lamb 

 on the thigh ; immediately the money rattles on the floor. 

 He spreads out the table-cloth; and immediately there is 

 food on it. 



When the king had heard about this, he paid a visit to 

 Fer/erqoja-q, accompanied by his officers. What does PerÅer- 

 qoja-q do? He fills a hog's bladder with ashes and lays it on 

 his mother's stomach. When the king comes in, he pulls a 

 knife out and sticks it into his mother, deep down in the 

 hog's bladder. His mother lets on that she is dead. 



' Gieenlandic mok orte, Danish mukkert, Dutch M ok er. 



