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From the depth beneath him his aperqiteeq begins to rise before him 
(making the sound): ob he‘! (The apergiteeg says): “What is it? 
What is the matter?” — “He (the sick one) groans with pain, because 
he has lost а soul.’ ©) Thereupon he who has entered ‘again examines’ 
(the sick one), and says something about him: “Express your opinion 
of him!” (says the angakok). ©) — “Because he has lost one of his 
souls, he wails.” — |The house-mates say to their angakok]: "Can't 
you get (him) his soul again?” 69 — “If it hasn't suffered injury it 
can easily be set fast in its place again.” — It is his custom to set it 
fast, (and) the sick one usually recovers. & When they have lost 
one of their souls to the seals* (they will say:) — “That old woman 
(‘her step-mother’s) her soul... she begins to be robbed of her soul.” 69) 
His searched-for beings* (his assistant spirits) are accustomed to 
marry and have children.** They have, it is said, quaitsiat, sons and 
daughters“) which cannot grow, (and) as they don’t fall ill they 
cannot age. Only after the lapse of so many years as these [ten fingers| 
are their little wives accustomed to marry ?| and have children. M 
— When their assistant spirits become ill, they are in the habit of 
going to their tit”taartits. Then the house-fellows of their ät”taartits 
generally have bad hunting. (72 
[Now they say:] “How plagued we are by a tupilak.— Ah! how 
continually we are pursued!” ) (By) a tupilak pursuing them (one 
of them), their sealing turns out badly. 77 — (Then the angakok says:) 
“Г shall see to you! I shall get the wretched tupilak away from 
you!“ When another has set a tupilak after you, then take away 
a bit of his catch: by fighting it with this bit of his spoil, you get 
rid of it.” VO | 
(Thus they behave when making tupilaks:) with the hood 
drawn half down, to give a stronger effect, they make tupilaks; (7 
sometimes from the large hairs of a seal’s beard, sometimes from its 
hind paws, sometimes from its fore flippers, sometimes from its short 
ribs, sometimes from (one of its) straps |?|*, sometimes from its 
dorsal vertebræ, sometimes from its tail, sometimes from a dog’s head, 
sometimes from a seal’s jaws, sometimes from its milt [?], and some- 
times from the leg of a ring plover. (® When they have done with 
their being out in search (of these things) (and) after having put 
on the anorak, back before, and drawn the hood half down, they 
‚таке a tupilak 79, for example from a dog’s head, a seal’s jaw, one 
of the seal’s fore flippers, a dead man’s arm, one of a full grown 
common seal’s hind flippers, the leg of a tern, ‘tying it together.’ CY 
They tie it with the help of this, the fourth finger, (but) only the 
one (that on the right hand) — with the intention of making it more 
effective. & When they have vitalized them they have them аз 
tupilaks. &) By removing (and employing) a bit of his (the pursued 
one’s) clothes, one furnishes it (the tupilak) with powerful effective- 
ness. When he (the pursued one) then is dead (he who discharged 
the tupilak says): “There, I did my job well!” 
When the tupilak is on the point of becoming vitalized (the one 
who makes it says in a babbling, undulating tone): “?o Ro: Ror-- 77 89) 
The tupilak while wakening to life eagerly sucks ‘these down here’ 
(between the legs). The maker of the tupilak (screams): "eh [on a 
