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Tupilaq

Wɔfrɛ no bio: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmƐfoforɔƐsesaAbayisɛm

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

Fa ko
Mfiase
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenland, Canada
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Nyansa
Adwene nni mu
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛsesa), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

Asɛm biara a ɛwɔ krataafa yi so fi saa fibea yi mu, na yɛde yɛn ankasa nsɛm na akyerɛw. Wohunuu mfomsoɔ bi? Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected].

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

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