270 W. THALBITZER. 
ersätuak‘in manisa‘rtino 5 I stroke you gently over your cheeks, 
maninet'ua‘tputin 6 You have become quite softened. 
NOTES. — 1. quia is a refrain-like word which is now and then used in 
magic songs (from which qulanertino ‘chanting over him or it’). Quite as 
ea it is to be repeated regularly. If it is from the same stem as qularpoa, its 
meaning must be something like ‘misgivings’: “Do misgivings arise in him or 
about him!” quia is probably the same word as Holm’s kuta (First Part 
p. 305). 
No. 84. Against the Enemy’s Spiteful Thoughts. 
TätYtaqujuk. 
Formula to avert an enemy’s hateful thoughts, or, perhaps, to parry a 
tupilak sent out by him. One pronounces the magic words aloud, while, with 
an amulet in one’s hand, one motions this backwards in the direction of the 
enemy. 
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INT 1 (Refrain) 
a алерийт 2 You have been sent off. 
suna’na akerpa''na What is it that approaches? 
arnart’ne akerpa'na 4 Is it his breaths from beyond [?] which ap- 
proach ? 
TO i 5 (Refrain) 
mata‘na sdt-erqititinut 6 Although by (through) the wryly twisted 
hood of the anorak 
ertip-ak:a I discover them, 
a’ta'‘putin ata-iputin 8 You have been sent off, you have been 
sent off. 
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NOTES. — 4. = апегпег(е) i?n:a (Kuannia) ‘the breathing of him yon- 
der’ which was explained by Kuannia as “his spiteful thoughts perhaps ap- 
proaching like a mist.” — 6-7. He who exorcises puts on his anorak inside 
out, or only its hood aslant over one shoulder, as if to conceal the averted 
face behind it. The intention is that the pursuing thoughts or tupilaks shall 
not be able to distinguish or find the pursued one; perhaps, even, that the 
reversed costume shall cause the pursuers to turn back to the one who first 
sent them out. — -finut indicates the way along which: ‘although you (the 
inimical thought) have to cross the shoulders of my reversed or crooked 
anorak.’ 
No. 85. Against the Effect of Shooting-stars. 
Qiwinalaag. 
Formula against the dangerous effect of a shooting-star (this phenome- 
non is called the star’s excrement). Mica is used as an amulet, especially by 
mourners (pagi®n’ertät). Qiwinaiaaq bought the formula from Teemiartissaq 
for a dog’s skin. 
