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the people laugh, she cuts them open, and gives their entrails to the clogs. Otherwise they are spared. Aningan warns the people not to laugh. When an angakok comes up to visit Aningan, he turns his head aside so that his laughter may not be seen. If he begins to laugh, Aqoq says, " Qongujukpouq" ("He laughs"). Irdlirvirisis- song goes driving with her dogs. 1

XXIX. QALUTALING.

Qalutaling is a woman who lives at the bottom of the sea. She says, " Psh, psh, psh ! " (the " sh " being pronounced through one cor- ner of the mouth and being drawn out). She can be heard but not seen by men. She is also known as " Amautiling " (having a hood), and can carry men in her hood. 2

XXX. FRAGMENTS.

i. A woman who was beaten by her hubsand ran away into the wilderness. A large tuneq found her. When he felt sleepy, she went away. On the great ice-cap she saw an old woman, and, follow- ing her tracks, went in her house. Then she went home ( ?). When she got back, her husband said, " Why do you come in now, when I am no longer looking for you?" Thereupon she speared him, and, when he ran away, followed him and speared him in the stomach, so that he died. After she had thus killed her husband, she herself was killed by the people.

2. Talitaxssuang, an evil man, stabbed a person while asleep. He entered the house, killed the person, and pulled him out by the legs.

3. A little boy, named Aninang, had been killed by his mother. One night, when every one was asleep, he came back from the grave. Slowly he crept on, then suddenly jumped upon his father and mother and began eating them. The rest of the people ran away horror-stricken, on a cake of ice, and paddled away on it. Later a man accidentally came to the house in which the boy was, and, find- ing what had occurred, killed him with a knife.

4. An old man was sitting outdoors half asleep, when a large bear came up and ate him. A woman who saw this occurrence called her brother, who, though only a boy, seized a spear and speared the bear through both eyes, thus dispatching him.

5. A little boy who had neither father nor mother, Oituaxssung

1 Erdlaveersissok in Greenland (Rink, T. and T. pp. 48, 440) ; Ululiernang in Baffin Land (Boas, p. 598); in Angmagsalik she is the sun's mother (Jupiter). See Holm, Sagn, p. 80.

2 Among the Central Eskimo, Kalopaling or Mitiling puts drowned hunters in his hood. He lives in the sea, and can only cry, " Be, be ! be, be ! " (Boas, p. 620).

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