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Illustration of Tupilaq
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 440 kwa-446

Tupilaq

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloOkunyeIyahlukaUbugqwirha

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

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Greenlandic Inuit
IGreenland, IKhanada
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyahluka
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Ubukrelekrele
Ayinangqondo
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyahluka), asingomlinganiselo.

Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

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

Ezinye ezifana nale

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