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(103) * Was explained thus: that the fingers are moistened with spit, which 
is conveyed by touch to his place on the platform. Spit (ike urine) has a 
magic effect, namely as a means to ward off danger from. hostile spirits. 
(105) * Namely the angakok, because there is a sick or asphyxiated person 
in the house or tent. 
(109)* The meaning is presumably this: The patient has swooned or is 
asphyxiated, and therefore is called “the dead one”. His soul appears like 
another spirit to the angakok who is lying on his back on the platform, in 
a trance, covered with a skin. During his vision he sees, that the falcon is 
satiated with food by eating the tupilak from whom the sickness arises, and 
the more he eats the better the patient is cured. When the falcon has eaten 
the tupilak, the patient recovers. 
(11) Here it is evident that the angakok is speaking, but an explanatory 
transition is wanting. It seems as if he has first asked one of his spirits the 
name of the culprit who has despatched the evil tupilak. 
(112) Here the angakok makes an accusation against the culprit, who (in 
what follows) at once makes confession. 
(115) In the last word the infix -@:- (which first sounded to me like -ter 
or -{e‘r) is perhaps to be understood as equivalent to WGr. -{v:- < -{v'w0q 
‘has a large size or volume’; -qi- perhaps instead of -ger-, WGr. -rgor-? 
(116)* The many different exclamations and interjections which the text 
contains are only rather incomplete renderings of the angakok’s varying 
signals by which his housefellows, the listeners in the dark, can follow the 
progressive sections of his performance. 
No. 234. The old man confides to Teemiartissaq some measures 
against misfortunes if the hunting implements are damaged. 
Teemiartissaq. 
My son’s [grandfather (?)|* the old man [came to me(?)],* attired 
in his best clothes and his greatest finery, then said: “I will teach 
you something.” — I said: “About what?” “About my namesake 
Kättiwaajee” — (because my father was his namesake).@ “If the bone 
peg (on the side) * of my namesake’s harpoon shaft has fallen off, 
then one must provide it properly with another peg together with a 
preventive against its tendency to fall off, (a counter expedient). — 
Now you shall get to hear about this counter expedient. Now listen.” & 
I said: “Which? Wherewith ?” — “Hah! With the ‘dust-herb’!® If it 
(the weapon) has (first) been properly provided (and) it (the peg) has 
gone off and won't let itself be repaired, then you shall take it,” he 
said to me.© I said: “What (shall I take)?” — “The one that grows 
on the ground.” — “What sort of one that grows on the ground ?” — 
“The one that grows on the bare ground, the puck-ball. When you 
have taken it, you shall mix it (the dust) down in the socket of the 
bone peg on my namesake’s harpoon shaft, here (in the hole) the 
contents of the puck-ball, so that it goes down in its inside — if 
you pour it in here, if you press it down into the socket of the bone 
peg, it will counteract it [its tendency to fall ой].” ” 
“[If] he wishes to get another harpoon shaft, you (or he) must 
