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qernerta'tap qa'iåne 3 From the black guillemot's skin 
qærærpoa 4 Have I my platform skin, 
erqunutep дачапе 5 From the sand-skipper's skin 
'да`гагроа! 6 (Have Г my platform skin). 
picere'rtiwa 7 I shall get well! 
NOTE. — 2. дала the skin covering on the platform where one sleeps .— 
5. Akernilik explained that erquyut-e were little animals in the lakes, the 
same as WGr. kijuit. Perhaps it is rather a sort of crustaceous animal (in 
lakes) than a sand-skipper. — 6. This line, I think, is to be interpolated. 
No. 54. Recovery from Sickness (I). 
Qiwinalaaq. AB. 
Magic formula for “recalling lost souls”, i. e., for recovery from sickness. 
Qiwinaaaagq had used it when she once had “lost her soul to the lake” as 
the result of her having drunk of the fresh water in the pools of the bog 
before her time of abstinence after a miscarriage had expired. This breach 
of obligatory abstinence brought its own punishment in some of her souls 
being torn away to the lake (imermun tarne‘‘rama), and this formula was to 
get her back her souls by her own efforts (without her seeking assistance 
from an angakok). — I recorded it in two copies, and on two different occa- 
sions, both from Qiwinaïaaq; I got the most complete version, В, on the 
last occasion. Moreover she gave two different authorities, which, I suppose, 
must be due to a lapse of memory, as she would scarcely have paid twice 
for the same formula. She first (text A) stated that she had bought it from 
Taamaakajik, an old bald woman in Sermilik fjord, and had paid her a 
wooden meat-trough for it. Taamaakajik was herself said to have at one 
time bought it for a piece of seal-skin and some beads. Next (text B) she 
mentioned Qilanatsa, a woman in Ammassalik fjord as selling her it; from 
whom she had bought it for a seal-skin, from which she had sewn herself 
a pair of trousers. This magic formula is almost identical with no. 55. 
B 
ea ea tarnak-a 1 My souls, 
ime ak-erin 2 Of yourselves (jor) from the lakes) come 
hither! 
ea ea tarnak:a tarnak:a 3 My souls, my souls 
iwerligin 4 Make yourselves fast! 
ea ea tarnak'a 5 My souls 
inven ak-erin 6 Of yourselves come hither! 
ea ea tarnak'a 7 My souls, 
ea imen iwertigin 8 Of yourselves make ye fast. 
ea ea 
A 
ea ea tarnäk'a, tarnak'a 
ea ea ume ak'erin 
ea ea tarnak:a 
ea ea ime twertigin 
ea ea 
