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Tupilaq

Er numnà: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Folclore e mitusAuterVariabelStriegn

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

Al cumbat
Origin
Greenlandic Inuit
Grönlanda, Canada
Tge che chaschuna quai
Striegn
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Co ch'ins daventa in
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Co ch'el sa mova
Variabel
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Intelligenza
Senza tscharvè
Puncts flaivels
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

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

Fissas ti pli svelt?

Classa da sveltezza tenor la descripziun en las funtaunas (variabel), betg ina mesiraziun.

Ti, a pe var 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, a la currida var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
In creschì sportiv en sprint var 24 km/h (15 mph)
In ciclist svelt var 37 km/h (23 mph)

Funtaunas

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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