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Language and Folklore. 
pic-ere:tilo ipa'sänamik 11 Making (us) strong without release (?), 
(ipa:sän'il'imik) (unreleasably) 
sumin makip:oa 12 From where do I rise? 
ititogap at'anın 13 From the kitchen midden of the old house, 
at ät kina'nik 14 From the sediment of the midden 
makip'oa 15 I rise. 
eotoqa:lertiwa 16 I begin to have a fellow in life(?). 
ea ea | 
Notes. — 1. A reflection or a shadow. — It is not certain whether the 
meaning is ‘of myself’ or ‘of another’ (of my spouse?). In old times, according 
to Fabricius’ dictionary, it was customary on the west coast to let the angakok 
prophesy from the reflection in a pail of water; this was called tarrartorpok, 
which meant: 1) ‘it reflects me (in water or in a mirror), 2) ‘to prophesy (in 
the way mentioned). To judge from this formula it seems possible to “pro- 
phesy” from a reflection in the window’s gutskin. — 9. i. e., I have been freed 
from illnes, or from the risk of illnes. — 10. Var. Asiarte:p sartiwowdsawa‘na 
(sartio'sermatik). Asiartik was explained by my informant as a monster who 
brings death and destruction “like Satan.” One must not entirely ignore the 
possibility that, since the connection with the west coast began, individual 
vague conceptions from the earlier christianized part of Greenland have pe- 
netrated to the east coast, and even to Ammassalik. It is more likely, how- 
ever, that this construction of “Asiartik like Satan” did not come till later, 
and after Ammassalik itself had beconie a mission station. My informant may 
have superposed an idea from the Christian range of thought on an pagan 
mythological figure as Asiartik, only known otherwise by the Ammassalik 
tribe. Cf. no. 49, note to 1.7. — 11. “Strong” i. e., as against our enemies’ fol- 
lowings, and those who will steal our souls, and the dangers on the sea, etc. 
“Without release” = ‘faithfully’? The expression is doubtful: my informant 
explained: “we would not let each other’s hands go, we (the young couple) 
would not be separated.” — 16. -да``[ег- instead of -qaqaler-. My informant’s 
explanation was another: “Now I begin to become an old person” < eo-toqaq{?|. 
No. 89. Amulet Stone for a Pregnant Woman (I). 
Teemiartissaq. 
Formula to be said over an amulet (a kasizerner stone) for use by a 
woman in pregnancy. The amulet is a small, round stone which the woman 
holds in her hand while, with the hood drawn over her head and the head 
bent forward with eyes staring towards the stone, she recites the formula. 
Then she sews the stone into her naatit so that it lies up against her sexual 
organ. By the formula she connects the amulet with the wish that it may 
strengthen the foetus. 
ea, ea katiteri nun-e-uuasertilin 1 You who formerly were a rare (round) 
stone in the interior of the earth, 
ea, ea kerpiataliima‘ri”k-in 2 I would I might soon get you for my 
foetus ! 
ea, ea Шу kauisertilin 3 You who are a rare (round) stone 
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