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Illustration of Tupilaq
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Faele Nom. 440 ya 446

Tupilaq

Gape e bidiwa: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneTse dingweGo a farologanaBoloi

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

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenland, Kanata
Se se e bakang
Boloi
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
O fetoga yone jang
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
E tsamaya jang
Go a farologana
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Botlhale
E sena tlhaloganyo
Bokoa
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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 o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (go a farologana), e seng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

Fepa letshwititi. Ga go na dipapatso, ga go na dilatedi, e duelelwa ke motho a le mongwe. Madi a tebogo a e boloka e le mo inthaneteng.Tlogela madi a tebogo

Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

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

Tse dingwe tse di tshwanang

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