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other (fresh meat) in the house.” (The dried foods) were usually 
hung up in the inside of the umiak. There they laid it up. Now he 
was about to go up there to fill into (into his vessel or bag). ® [In- 
side the umiak were some who often stayed there.| Unexpectedly 
(there were) some strange beings who were heard to talk in a 
whisper with their ugly voices, Taarajuätsaait (half-people) who 
talked together. ® — “Who stepped on me by mistake?” © — [Up 
there, inside the umiak (there was) a woman with whom he lay*, 
dead ==]. Up there was one (a man) who became more and more 
lustful. [He snapped his hunting bladder*|. (A woman screamed:) 
“Не is seizing me! There is someone brooding over me!’ ** (The 
scream is repeated three times). They (two) tumbled down, they 
struck against the ground |complaining|.® After the fall by its (the 
umiak’s) side, they sprang up, [after the spring] after having gotten 
up they went off, running. He followed up after them. ® Up they 
came [to a little house]. The Taarajuätsiaq's eldest (grandparents) 
stood outside the house.“® A Taarajuätsiaq was heard to say: [“We 
rolled down’ |. — “A wriggly-tail* came into the hollow under the 
bed ** (the boat) and seized her violently,” he (or she) told.“ [Down 
there by the water] a wriggly-tail which wanted to creep inside the 
umiak [one who was in the habit of creeping in|, because he was 
generally desirous of her. 1? 
“She over there” shall investigate the matter by asking her qila 
(earth spirit)” [calling on her gila in reference to it (him or her?)|. — 
(The answer?) “(He only came to fetch?) his hunting bladder.’ — 
“She, over there, will ask her qia!” {preparing herself for а qila- 
performance . . .(?)] —‘‘Watch out now, she there! the qilalik-woman’s 
instrument! ** she is going to ask her qila.” — Thereupon she began 
to feel the presence of her qila. 4), — (A voice:) “A wriggly-tail which 
blocked ‘the hollow under the bed’ grabbed her [he took her by 
force]. — The loosened soul* down from the earth began to speak a 
little.“ [The one who came to fetch something had ‘brooded her’: 
“Did it hurt you?” — “Yes, it hurted me.”|!9 — “Did you make a 
real copulation? (?)” — Then she (the old woman?) said: “I over- 
come you, don’t I? May you feel a bad pain in them!” — “Yes, of 
course!” * — “[That’s good enough for you, may it hurt you!” — 
“Yes, of course.”| 9 
== (11) garnita' perpa’ (cf. WGr. pa: nerpa: ‘blocks the entrance (pa'q) for him.’) 
да‘пе must be used here for the hollow room under the umiak or its interior; 
otherwise ‘the hollow room, the cavity under the platform in the house.’ 
*(13) “She, over there,” namely in the house of the Inuit, some old woman 
or other. — ** (13) at-aqit? < аЁар'а` ‘makes it fast, attaches it” The qilalik’s 
“instrument” is a wand and the attaching cord by means of which she raises 
and weighs the object of her examination (usually the head of a person who 
lies on the platform) 
* (14) atana'r ‘the one plunged into the depths,’ the soul of the sick or of the 
one whose business is being investigated by the spirit in the earth. Cf. 231.8 
* (16) This a:mila: was pronounced slowly and solemnly as though with 
the voice of a despairing or repentant soul. 
