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Illustration of Tupilaq
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Fayl No. 440 diga 446

Tupilaq

Wi'aama fahin: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Haala e tuugnorgalGoɗɗum feereIna feereSihiru

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

Haɓdu e mo
Ƴiiɗal
Greenlandic Inuit
Groenland, Kanadaa
Ko waɗi ɗum
Sihiru
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
No a wonata gooto
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
No ɗum yaaɗi
Ina feere
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Hakkiilo
Walaa hakkiilo
Ñaawooje
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
winndaa ɗo nokku

Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i

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

A waawan daanaade mo?

Ngesa yaawngo ko sorsi ɗin kaalata (ina feere), wanaa ko hakkundirdaa.

An, a yaaɗi ɗon 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
An, a ɗawi gaynaako ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Gooto bote mo tiiɗi, wa'i ko yaawɗo ɗon 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mbaaleejo ngaɗa yaawɗo ɗon 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sorsi

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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