Language and Folklore. 469. 
from those ‘who have already come, a while ago.’ It is their own 
toornaartik. (7 
When I made my appearance as angakok, wishing only to do 
such things; as I had come to own a foornaartik—though still filled 
with fear at being obliged to seek (my assistant spirits)— my step- 
father said—who now lies up there, poor fellow! that when his 
uncle appeared as angakok, he, too, was filled with fear when his 
gimarhrat (pursuing-spirits) made their entrance into the house, then 
they (the inmates) moved at top speed up on to the platform toward 
the inmates (while the spirits shrieked): amo——h!“) Among these 
was also the well-known Uppinnuag (Little Owl), one of the assistant 
spirits of the oldest of the Iwnartiwaq dwellers, — of him too they 
were very much frightened, it was said, — and so they tried to learn 
the angakok practices themselves. ©” 
Therefore I would be an angakok myself when I heard of the 
“oldest” of the Iwnartiwaq-dwellers self-taught angakok arts ; — when 
I heard of this, I would myself seek (assistant spirits).©!) Weeping I 
was wont to wander off, inland. On the banks of Kootiwaq (Great 
River) I threw myself on my back (and shouted): “Who, indeed, will 
come to me”’?%? Then a singing sound began to be heard, (and) some- 
one ‘rose up from below.’ As it at once sounded as if it (the being) 
drew nearer I arose.& Then said (I): “I will not come forth so that 
he sees me, let me not risk being frightened to death (fainting away 
from fright)!” At this he appeared ‘in all his horror, * — oh, blueish 
black (or green) ** — then I lost consciousness.) As he had begun 
to devour, he devoured it (my body) entirely. When I regained con- 
sciousness, I had on no clothing. My clothes (I put on) (and) down 
I went (to our dwelling). 69 
My mother turned to me and said: “My dear lass, what are 
you about?” — “Nothing” (I replied). — I kept it secret because I 
thought: If I mention it, I will never again see my spirit. 69 
I kept it secret, then, (and) it became winter. When it was winter 
my step-father began to summon spirits with (or in) the drum, they 
‘crept into him.’ ©” — ‘Who are you? says he,6) — “(I am) one from 
the inland” (the being replied).— Then (again) with the drum 6%; “(Who 
are you)’ says he.— “I ‘belong to the soil’,” (it replied).(® Then he 
(or they) began to ‘penetrate’ (them or him). He made his appearance 
as angakok (and) began to summon spirits. (D Ipootuakajik (an 
assistant spirit) usually came in, (and) he (the angakok) would say, 
(and) he spoke of me: “I will cure her.” Singing (and beating the 
drum) he sank (through the floor and) came in again. A voice (that 
of the assistant spirit) usually said: “You are greatly deprived of one 
of your souls!” — Whenever I fell ill he would come to investigate 
my soul (my souls) (63) [Here we were interrupted.] 
(6)** Teemiartissaq never succeeded in becoming a thoroughly trained anga- 
kok nor to obtain an assistant spirit. — In the haste of taking down her re- 
cord, the content of the parenthesis is possibly written in the wrong place. 
ateiwartara is like the immediately succeeding at‘e-wartara connected with 
SWGr. ateiuarpoq, ‘he sees a supernatural being, a ghost, ес.’ which again 
must be < WGr.aliortorpona, ‘sees an inexplicable sight, ghost’ (thus accord- 
