Language and Folklore. 479 
No. 233. Of the Pupils Who Learn to Summon Spirits and 
Make Tupilaks. 
We teach ourselves the art of angakok in order to stimulate 
courage in those who fear death, those poor deeply troubled ones, in 
order to free them of their troubles.“ (I shall) speak of the means 
whereby we become angakut: about their (the angakut’s) spiritual 
flying, both eastwards (out into the sea) to the great multitude of 
‘the poor dead in the underworld, ® and to the moon and the 
heavens, and to ‘the land on the other side.’ & 
When the angakut ‘imagine themselves to be’ on their spiritual 
flight they arrive at these places ‘flying’ (like the birds) through the 
air. As they repeatedly search for these they generally find them at 
last. ® By the aid of their foornaarlik they search them out with care 
and diligence. These (beings) belong to the sea, where they discover 
them, while they utter a long drawn-out strong sound: O—o—o. © 
They discover them (and) by visiting them attain acquisition of them 
las their assistant spirits]. For three days running they visit them 
on and off. © * 
They also are in the habit of searching for their aperqiteks to be. 
They find them after careful search, calling them forth only by the 
use of thought, with the angakut’s special prayers * for calling forth 
their apergiteks. ® They also spend three days staying with their 
aperqitek to be. Him he (the angakok) also gets by the activity of 
his thought (or fantasy), (whereafter he is finished with him). © 
They are also in the habit of searching for another great being 
which lives in the water, the great Neelersog |‘the eater’|, (so called) 
because he eats them;®) when they come to him he generally eats 
them. He eats, eats, eats the flesh of them until he reduces them to 
skeletons, eats them to the last shred and fibre. 9 He lurks behind 
them. Afterwards he has no flesh and is only bones.” His clothes * 
[which come running to him, scream]: kia ka ka ka! Thus they 
behave to them, screaming kia (-Ка). 1? 
Then they begin to get flesh on the body, and when they have 
commenced to do this they recover consciousness. [He who has eaten 
says]: Who are they? Who are they who shout kia-ka?  — When 
they have got back their flesh they rise, clothed anew, as these, their 
anoraks (jackets), which had previously fled away, come back (run- 
ning by themselves). They put on their clothes (and) quickly go away 
from there. 9 Again they ‘complete’ (acquire) him (the spirit) in three 
days by visiting him, then they ‘are finished with him. 4 
Thereupon they again search for spirits from their falcons to be, 
[calling thus] Ке-Ке-Ке-Ке```! Then they begin to catch sight of them. (6) 
The angakut are in the habit of getting falcons (for assisting spirits), 
(and) likewise take three days to be finished with them. “” 
They are also in the habit of searching for their Heajudtsiaq 
spirits. They catch sight of them, and visit them in the interior for 
three days (running). 18) While they (one of the Eeajuätsiaqs) give him 
a little lecture they give him tuition, and provide him with the means 
to make tupilaks. 1” 
