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No. 91. Woman in Travail. 
Teemiartissaq. 
Formula for a woman if she has trouble in childbirth. She uses it when 
in travail, and the throes of travail compel her to do so. But if she hås no 
trouble she does not make use of it. 
ea, ea 
kisim itia'ne Ичадагроа 1 Whose womb have I for my womb? 
na’ja™ itiæne itiagarpoa 2 The gull’s womb have I for my womb. 
kisim itiane itiagarpoa 3 Whose womb have I for my womb? 
quse" itiane itiaqarpoa 4 The sea-fowl’s (the gull’s) womb have 
I for my womb. 
ea ea 
NOTES.— 1. In a similar formula reported by Kruuse (1911, р. 41) for the 
use of a woman during confinement there is also talk of her womb “the 
mouth of my womb is lowered” (1. e., extends downwards?). See no. 92. 
Е. SUPPLEMENT TO MAGIC PRAYERS 
Besides my own material and the few magic formule collected 
by G. Holm there are, as has been mentioned, some smaller but im- 
portant contributions published by C. Kruuse and C. Rosing. 
No. 92—96 were recorded at Ammassalik by the colonial manager, 
Johan Petersen, a few years before my arrival there. Kruuse, who 
wintered there in 1901—02 in order to study botany, published this 
folk-lore material together with the report of his expedition. The 
Greenland texts were rendered in accordance with Johan Petersen’s 
original manuscript’, which I later received from the latter and whose 
Danish translation is here further translated into English. No less 
interesting is Rosing’s contribution, which hitherto has appeared only 
in the Greenlandic language. I render a portion of this contribution 
in the English translation under nos. 97—102, but I prefer not to 
include the Greenlandic text given by him, as he has transcribed it 
from the East Greenlandic dialect into the West Greenlandic. Johan 
Petersen, on the other hand, has kept more strictly to the East 
Greenlandic phraseology. though he spells the words in the way they 
are spelt in West Greenland. In my rendering of his manuscript I 
transcribe his spelling after my own phonetic principle. With Kruuse 
(Johan Petersen) the refrain is spelt id, and with Rosing Йа (once 
уа-а). I myself always heard this word like a combination of two 
1 In Kruuse’s version of Johan Petersen’s manuscript there are several mistakes 
which are corrected in this rendering of mine. For example, in his Greenlandic 
text Kruuse continually employs 6 where Petersen writes d, or has this in 
view, as his å is often written indistinctly. His k, likewise, is sometimes mis- 
taken for x [q] and the reverse. In no. 93, here (= no. 2 in Kruuse), Petersen 
first, writes kokarpua in his MS., but when repeating the word he spells it dis- 
tinetly as kakarpua, which I should spell thus, qa'qarpoa. 
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