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Tupilaq

Ibuye libizwe: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Amasiko nezinganekwaneOkunyeIyehlukaUbuthakathi

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

Lwa nayo
Imvelaphi
Greenlandic Inuit
I-Greenland, I-Canada
Okuyibangela
Ubuthakathi
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Indlela inyakaza ngayo
Iyehluka
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Ubuhlakani
Abangenamqondo
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo 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

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

Isigaba sejubane esisuka ekuchazweni yimithombo (iyehluka), hhayi isilinganiso.

Wena, uhamba cishe 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ugijima kancane cishe 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq cishe 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umuntu omdala olungile egijima ngamandla cishe 24 km/h (15 mph)
Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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