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Tupilaq

Ook bekend as: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Volksverhale en mitesAnderWisselTowery

The tupilaq is a constructed monster of Greenlandic tradition, stitched together from animal remains and human child corpses and animated to carry out a murder. It has no purpose but its maker's revenge and it will destroy him if it fails. Although it is assembled rather than raised whole, it belongs with the sorcerer-controlled dead of other cultures. Its nearest literary cousin is Frankenstein's creature.1

Veg daarteen
Oorsprong
Greenlandic Inuit
Groenland, Kanada
Wat dit veroorsaak
Towery
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Hoe jy een word
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Hoe dit beweeg
Wissel
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Intelligensie
Breinloos
Swak plekke
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

The maker wore his parka back to front with the hood over his face1

2

The ritual involved sexual contact with the bones and chanting that could last for days1

3

None survive, since they were made of perishable materials1

4

Among other Inuit groups the word could mean an invisible ghost or a chimera only shamans could see1

5

The carved tupilak figures sold today began as models made to show curious Europeans what one looked like1

Sou jy hom kon uithardloop?

Spoedklas volgens hoe die bronne dit beskryf (wissel), nie 'n meting nie.

Jy, stap omtrent 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jy, draf omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
'n Fikse volwassene wat naelloop omtrent 24 km/h (15 mph)
'n Vinnige fietsryer omtrent 37 km/h (23 mph)

Bronne

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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