Language and Folklore. 455 
Nos. 230—237. [=] 
MEMORIES OF YOUTH OF A FEMALE ANGAKOK. 
By Teemiartissaq. 
No. 230. Education in Magic Arts. 
Her vision, and her visit to the realm of the dead beneath the sea (44-48). 
The danger line passed (49-51). — The meeting with her dead brother in the 
realm of the dead (52-60). — Her remorse for having abandoned her training 
for angakok (61-62). — The tents in the realm of the dead (63-64). — The return 
home to this world and the awakening in the hut (66-68). 
My father, my deceased, real father (named) Saqiätta, ® (when 
he had become) a poor, old,* man gave me tuition. He said: “Train 
for angakok.” (2) 
I ascended (to the inland). Up there I saw a butterfly bloody all 
over, sitting on the ground, ® one which was ready to be whistled 
to. *® This, it is said, possessed me, when I began to become an an- 
gakok ;%) I attired myself in this (his slough or his ‘appearance’). © 
(A little later) I whistled again * (and) caused him to leave me.‘ — 
Another person said: “Now she is training diligently for an angakok, 
she ‘begins to whistle’; ® she is training to become one who can des- 
cend to the deep sea; I wonder if she will visit the gedhead of the 
sea when she has become a fully trained angakok?” ©) — Then he 
(the butterfly) licked himself, and stroked away the blood. Then I 
recovered consciousness. (0) 
The other said: “Now you are beginning to be a fully trained 
angakok, you soon will be able to ascend to the heavens above, but 
it is on condition that you carefully maintain and carefully impress 
on yourself the angakok learning.“ Do you wish to acquire assistant 
spirits ?” — “Yes” I answered. (2) 
Then I proceeded up there (on the mountain), and after a while 
had the experience of hearing two foxes who had become human 
beings. First, I heard both (screaming): “Ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka! 
Isn’t there anything down there?” (14) — (One of them) was down by 
the shore, the other was higher up.“ — Не by the shore (said): “Here 
is a great many sea scorpions.” — The other who was higher up said: 
“Kakaka, here is a great quantity of dandelions. Isn’t there anything 
down there? kakakaka.’ 9 — “Here is a great quantity of mussels, 
kakakaka. Isn’t there anything up there?’—“Here is a great quantity 
of edible sea-weed [?]. Isn’t there anything down there ?’’“”) — “Here 
is a great quantity of small codfish, kakaka...ka'k. Isn’t there any- 
thing up there?” — “Here is a great quantity of blue-berries, kakakaka. 
Isn’t there anything down there?” 4) — “Here is a great quantity of 
crabs. Isn’t there anything up there?” — “Here is a great quantity of 
