Language and Folklore. 493 
provide the upper (hindmost) part of the shaft** towards the “bird,” * 
towards the ‘wings’, with a new piece of wood.® (Then suppose) 
the bone fore-shaft of his shark-killing (weapon) [?] will be disposed 
to go (turn) out of place[?| for him, then, even if he otherwise 
would get another but did not manage it, as it was too difficult for 
him, the one [the piece? or the shark] which came off will return 
to him a little later.” & 
“ТЁ it happens that his sealing falls, he shall place a dung-fly * 
in the opening (cavity) of the (one) ‘bonecap’ of his kaiak оаг; 19) in 
the other (bonecap) he shall, again, place that which grows on the 
beach, the red sea-weed’s (‘edible parts’), the completely blue (or 
green) parts, which, in the cavity of the Dore shall serve him to 
catch (seals).” 01 
* (9) < na‘rjarteq ‘a shark’ (a shark-lance? Otherwise unknown). Possibly 
one or two words about the kind of weapon which is meant have dropped 
out. The next sentence is also rather obscure. | 
#(10) Cf. in one of the magic prayers (по. 87) the same animal. — ‘Bone- 
cap’, see First Part р. 385, figs. 88—91. 
* (11) apa: ‘food’ > a:pa:jua (-Juag ‘appurtenant or particular’ ?). 
Nos. 235—237. Three Dreams. 
Teemiartissaq. 
No. 235. In the Time of Pregnancy. 
I laid me down to sleep (upon the platform). My abdominal parts 
— how big they were! Ah! (I groaned in my sleep). I sank down- 
wards (and) when I had sunk down, I looked backwards, upwards.” 
My part (body) up there, my part had no abdomen. Then (frightened 
I yelled:) “Hui, hei! hei!” Along the edge of the side wall I crept 
up and (from there) I looked back downwards. I looked back at 
myself: “See, there Gs) my part, (my body with) its great abdomen.” 
I clenched my hands, (and then) I stroked over my abdomen and 
pinched it? (and) when I had stroked it over and pinched it (then) 
in the opposite direction, in this direction here. I plunged my hand 
down. in it. (There was) a large thumping foetus, a large child. I 
tugged at it in one end. I could not feel that I put my hand down 
in the inside of my pelvic cavity. At the same instant I pushed it up* 
against my pelvis,” (then) again I raised my hands a little. I thought: 
“The child’s head has measure (form) of my pelvic bones,® let me 
take care not to separate them (burst them asunder), my pelvic bones; 
I will not bring it (the embryo) forth. I will give birth in conceal- 
ment.“ When the pains of childbirth come, then (I will) blow upon 
it (and) it closes itself.” 49 — I sank down again. I lay beside my 
husband. Because he was impatient to be off (hunting) I shouted 
thus: Hoyhoyhoy (halloo)!@" and ducked up (from the underworld) 
clothing myself with my body. Finally I stepped into myself (regained 
consciousness); gnashing my teeth I came in.” I was an angakok- 
apprentice. 
