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Tupilaq

Einnig kallaður: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Þjóðtrú og goðsagnirAnnaðBreytilegtGaldrar

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

Berjast við hann
Uppruni
Greenlandic Inuit
Grænland, Kanada
Hvað veldur því
Galdrar
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Hvernig maður verður einn
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Hvernig hann hreyfist
Breytilegt
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Greind
Heilalaus
Veikir blettir
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
vettvangsglósur

Hvað heimildir segja

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

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Hraðaflokkur byggður á lýsingum heimilda (breytilegt), ekki mæling.

Þú, gangandi um 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Þú, skokkandi um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Hraustur fullorðinn á spretti um 24 km/h (15 mph)
Fljótur hjólreiðamaður um 37 km/h (23 mph)

Heimildir

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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