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Tupilaq

Detto anche: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
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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

Combatterlo
Origine
Greenlandic Inuit
Groenlandia, Canada
Cosa lo causa
Stregoneria
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Come lo si diventa
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Come si muove
Varia
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Intelligenza
Senza cervello
Punti deboli
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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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Classe di velocità dalla descrizione delle fonti (varia), non una misura.

Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq circa 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fonti

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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