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high note which gradually falls to one deep down), I am afraid of 
it.” &) They generally advance with closed eyes. Now the newly made 
tupilak exclaimed: “Where am I to go?” (86) When it had said: “Where 
am I to go?” — (it was answered): “To Nukko and his family.” 87 
Thereupon it dived down into the sea, (from where) it came unawares 
upon him (against whom it had been sent out). € The evil tupi- 
lak maker says: “Where is he?” speaking to himself ]?]: “Where is 
this Nukko?” @) — He started with fright, he was attacked by horror, 
from the sent out great, evil tupilak, (and) he died. (Afterwards) it 
left him, poor fellow! 
[Another example *| They began to have bad hunting.®) A tu- 
pilak constantly pursued (the hunter). When he approached the land 
in his kaiak (he made) ‘a spoil to be towed behind the kaiak. @!)— 
“But when I was just about to make straight for it (in order to 
secure it), what a surprise, there was no spoil to be towed.” His evil 
pursuer had brought it about that he had no catch. © 
[The angakok зауз:| “I shall summon and question my assistant 
spirit concerning you.’— Then he begins to summon the spirits; be- 
gins to communicate with them. ©) — “One of his ‘appurtenances’, 
(he cried), search for his ‘appurtenance’! Get along under him, please!” 
(says the angakok). 7% — (His assistant spirits) are in the habit of 
appearing down beneath him in the interior of the earth.° His drum 
co-operates with him by rocking up and down.®® Then he is ac- 
customed first ‘to set him at work’ (for chasing the tupilak). °9 — 
“Beat away on his place on the platform!” (says the angakok to his 
spirit),“®) Then he directs his spirit to him. — “Now let his falcon come 
to him (or it)!” ©) — Finally the bad tupilak (screams): “There, 
there, there, now it is enough!” it screams.“ The falcon comes 
to it, catches hold of it, (and) begins to eat away at it, greedily.“ 
When it has got properly to work, eating away at it, (it screams): 
“ke-ke ke ke ke— ! Its voice comes into the house (where the angakok 
is sitting), (102) 
When they (the falcons) have begun the eating of (the tupilak’s) 
body, (the inmates of the house or tent) are accustomed to ‘spit’ on 
the extreme board of the platform. * 4%) They (housemates) say: “The 
dear, sweet (falcon)! How lovely it is to hear him scream, how 
charming! How ravishing it is to hear him screech, how charming!” 
— The falcon (then) generally disappears (in the distance). 4% 
Another time they began to long for (need) him.* Then (the 
falcon is again heard): ke ke ke ke!) The inmates of the house say: 
“There we have him again, the dear one! There we have him again!” 
Then he is sent away.“ Those inside the house say: “Who has 
made the tupilak? has he caught (it)? has the falcon begun to eat 
(it)?” 407 — Then he approaches with all his might, full-swing, (and 
enters); he imitates the drum’s rocking movement. (108) 
Thereupon (the angakok) summons his spirit; the ‘dead one’ 
[the patient?) comes to him. (The angakok says): “Eeh—eeh—eeh ! 
How he (the falcon) begins to get stuffed!” — He sends him 
(the falcon) away again. 9 Then the inmates of the house say: 
“Who had made the tupilak? has he caught it?” — (The angakok’s 
answer [?]) “He is well on the way to the falcons.’ (M) — [The anga- 
