Reading Notes: Eskimo Folk Tales A


  • Nukungusik, who Escaped from the Tupilak
    • many brothers
    • no wife
    • middle brother trying to kill him --killed him
    • helped them search for the body
    • Nuk lived very long and died last of the brothers
  • The Giant Dog
    • man with a very big dog 
    • could swim in the sea and could haul whale and narwhal to shore
    • drilled holes in teeth and put a harness in it so he could ride the dog
    • the guy never had son
      • so gave the dog this amulet (knot of hard wood) 
        • this helped the dog not die
    • the dog ate a man so the owner had to go live somewhere else with his dog
    • Someone came on the island so the man tried to make sure the dog didn't know 
      • the dog smelt the new man and his owner hid the new comer
    • dog would go kill inlanders and then bring the legs back to his owner 
    • this is why the inlanders are scared of all dogs
The Giant Dog
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Story source: Eskimo Folk-Tales by Knud Rasmussen with illustrations by native Eskimo artists (1921).

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