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Language and Folklore. 
so:t tikip'« ga 5 Who comes to me? 
maca‘p tikip'a ga 6 The bearded seal comes to me. 
ea ea col tikip:a:ga 7 Who comes to me? 
qa‘ naliwatsa:p tikip:a'ga 8 The Greenland seal comes to me. 
ea ea co:t Шар`а`да 9 Who comes to me? 
aperte'm tikip'a na 10 The crested seal comes to me. 
ea ea cot tikip'a ga 11 Who comes to me? 
atanuarte:p likip apa 12 The white whale comes to me. 
ea ea cot tikipa'ga 13 Who comes to me? 
sicarale:p tikip:a'ga 14 The walrus comes to me. 
ea ea 
No. 74. Corpse Vapour after a Funeral. 
Kättuarajee. 
This is the mourner’s magic formula for use in dispelling the pujoq (mist, 
smoke, steam, vapour’) of the corpse. Angakut says that the surviving relative 
of the deceased gets pujoq round his head and on his fingers from the corpse. 
It is invisible to all others save to angakut. At Ammassalik, according to 
Kuannia, pujörpog ‘he or it smokes, has smoke’, meant about the same as 
dt-erpog ‘he fasts, refrains, from regard for religion, from certain kinds. of food 
and occupations.’ In other words, it is a question, in this formula, of a ritual- 
istic confirmation of the state of uncleanness incident to death, and perhaps, 
too, of the magic incantation (obviation) for the same. 
ea ea pujorton | 1 He (she) is infected with corpse vapour, 
ea ea ilana pujorton 2 My relative is infected with corpse vapour, 
ea ea pujorton 3 He (she) is infected with corpse vapour, 
ea ea пипа qa‘ia pujorton 4 The surface of the ground is infected with 
| corpse vapour. 
Notes. — 2. Here, by Папа, is presumably meant the deceased. Other- 
wise, the other near relative who is taking part in burying the corpse. — 
4. Here, there undoubtedly is reference to the places where the corpse has 
lain and is lying, from the platform in the house to the grave, above and 
below the surface of the ground. 
No. 75. Woman’s First Work after Mourning. 
Qiwinalaag. 
This and the following formulae are used by a woman when she puts 
off her mourning after a death, and for the first time is allowed to go 
out of the house and down to the beach, and to eat whatever she likes. 
Qiwigaraaq had bought it from Cialittog at Umeewik. 
Rosing has a similar formula, where the grandfather and the grand- 
mother are also mentioned: “They are displeased that the gale prevents my 
landing in my kaiak; might I soon be allowed to land!” (see no. 99). 
