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No. 57. Against Vomitings. 
Teemiartissaq. 
Teemiartissaq used this formula when she became dizzy, and suffered 
from vomiting. . 4 
ea ea kise nela® ne‘wara 1 Whose food have I eaten? 
ea ea kekem nella: newara 2 The falcon’s food have I eaten, 
ea ea Ш’с‘едйтат` ед 3 That which will not be vomited, 
ne-wara — ea ea 4 That have I eaten. 
NOTES. — 2. ke‘ke q, taboo word for WGr. kis’aviarsuk, at Ammassalik 
nap: alikitseq. — 3. = me’ia nay'üseq. — Other birds which often cast up their 
food are known. The falcon is not such a one. 
No. 58. The Patient’s Raising. 
Teemiartissaq. 
Formula for inducing the patient to rise from his couch. It is called 
the patient’s ‘get up’ remedy (makin, so‘iartät makita’). Teemiartissaq got 
it from an old woman in Sermilik and paid her well for it, as it was very 
valuable. She gave her something for each finger: a bracelet, a string of 
beads (as a lace for her anorak), a spoon, a pair of Scissors, a needle, a fire- 
making apparatus, a lance-head, etc., ten articles in all. She declared that the 
formula had often helped her when she had been ill. 
ea. ea. ie‘. makinit 1 Stand by him! Arise! 
ea. ea. PET 2 Stand by him! Awake! 
ea. ilerin. 
Ol, 20, UPC, MEET). 3 Stand by him! Stand by him! Arise! 
makinin 
Ol, Et ИР), Uber 4 Stand by him! Stand by him. 
it-erin. iterin 5 Awake, awake! 
ea. ea. mak'it 6 Get up! 
NOTES. — 1-4. iten (< it-eruk or < iterv:k) was explained by the in- 
formant by ite-rtorpara (= -pa:ma) which I then understood as ‘he defends, 
or protects, me.’ Kuannia wanted to comprehend 1е-у differently, namely as a 
very condensed form of i?t:ine:n ‘you, one says, i. e. ‘it is you who are called 
on, do you hear? and certainly the termination -pe'n at times occurs in a 
very impaired form (as -nen, -yin etc.). On the other hand there is Teemi- 
artissaq’s own explanation, which, however, is itself open to several inter- 
pretations (‘he makes room on the platform for me’, moves me aside’, or ‘he 
blushes for me’). If I have kept to the above given interpretation it is out of 
regard for the suffix -tor (cf. WGr. -sor in it-ersorpa:‘na), and for the better. 
sense of the interpretation. 
