Language and Folklore. 22111) 
No. 97. For Catching a Common Seal. 
(Rosing no. 1.) 
1 What sort of one crosses my way? 
2 The common seal crosses my way. 
3 One speaks fear to you. 
No. 98. Against a Tupilak. 
(Rosing no. 2.) 
If a tupilak has been sent out against anyone, one should pronounce a 
spell while one circles the roof of the house in the course of the sun. This 
magic formula is longer than usual and the refrain is also more drawn out 
than usual, viz, ija" (cf. no. 84). 
1 It pursues me, it pursues me, ah! 
2 The black dog, the black dog pursues me, ah! 
3 Put my dog’s harness on it 
4 And drive away with it. 
5 You will come to a hunter — 
6 But see, what has he in his “bag’’? 
7 A pebble he has in his bag. 
8 You will come to a hunter, 
9 You will come to a hunter. 
When he has done with this part of the formula, he must beat the air with a 
kamiut-stick 1 while he recites thus: 
10 You evil being, you travel away! [bis] 
11 Then, you evil being, travel away! [bis] 
12 We are freed of all our disturbance, 
13 We are freed of all cast out malice. 
After this the tupilak is said to flee, to turn against the one who has 
made it, and to eat him up. Cf. no. 109. 
NOTES. — 6. “bag” The word probably means his scrotum. — 13. i. e. all 
the malice cast out against us by our fellow-beings. 
No. 99. The Paddler in Distress. 
(Rosing no. 3.) 
When the kaiak paddlers are overtaken by a storm at sea, they are 
accustomed, in order to reach land, to charm the hunting weapons of their 
kaiak thus: 
1 What will bring me to land? 
2 My grandfather will bring me to land, 
3 My grandfather will bring me to land. 
1 Short flat stick to make the seal-skin of the boots pliable after they have been 
used (First Part, 515—516). 
