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Illustration of Tupilaq
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Tupilaq

Akpọkwa ya: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Akụkọ ifo na akụkọ ọdịnalaNdị ọzọDị iche icheAmoosu

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

Mee ha lụọ ọgụ
Mmalite
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenland, Canada
Ihe na-akpata ya
Amoosu
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Otu i si abụrụ otu
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Otu o si agagharị
Dị iche iche
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Ọgụgụ isi
Enweghị uche
Ebe adịghị ike
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
ndetu ubi

Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu

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

Ị ga-agba ya ọsọ?

Klas ọsọ site n'otu isi mmalite si kọwaa (dị iche iche), ọ bụghị nha.

Gị, na-eje ije ihe dị ka 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Gị, na-agba ọsọ ntakịrị ihe dị ka 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq ihe dị ka 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Okenye siri ike na-agba ọsọ ihe dị ka 24 km/h (15 mph)
Onye na-agba ịnyịnya ígwè ọsọ ihe dị ka 37 km/h (23 mph)

Isi mmalite

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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Akụkọ ifo site n'otu ala

Hooh-Strah-DoohWyandot (Huron)SkadegamutcWabanaki (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki)

Ndị yiri nke a

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)