Week 9 Reading Post B [Inuit]

Inuit Family

Papik, Who Killed His Wife's Brother:

• Papik was mad that his brother in law always caught a seal while fishing and his envy grew. 
• One day, he did not come back from hunting and his mother accused Papik for killing him. She vows to eat him alive. What?
• The old woman took her revenge on him by disguising him as a bear. It is told that when ever a man killed another for no reason, an evil spirit will come kill him and leave no part whole. 

Pat, Who Killed His Uncle:

• Pat was fonder of his uncle's wife than his own. 
• He killed his uncle and tried to kill his wife. His wife saw her husband kill his uncle and fled. He returned home, married his uncle's wife but she died. 
• One day he went hunting and struck a fox but it did not hit the animal. It ended up being the ghost of his uncle who kills him. 
• Punishment falls upon the man who kills.

The Wife Who Lied:

• A woman lied to her kinfolk saying that her husband's tribe mistreated her. Her kinfolk took revenge on the woman in the village for the men were away. 
• When the men returned, they took their revenge on the woman's tribe.
• When they captured the woman, she thought they were arguing about who was going to take her as a wife. 
• They cut her arms off and she died.
• Pretty brutal but she did basically kill half a village. 

Angangujak:

• A woman's child felt great dread that her child went missing. When she tells her husband he accuses her of killing him and tells her he would kill her. She begs him to try to find the child first.
• He finds him with the help of a wizard. His child was being taken care of by two people in the mainland. 
• His father takes him from the people's house and never went to the main land again. 

Tungujuluk and Saunikoq:

• Wizards who would turn into a bear and walrus. S was jealous of T for having a son. 
• S turned into a bear and tried to kill his son but T was there to wield his knife. He did not kill him but he remembered what S had done. 
• T made a fool out of S and shamed him out of the village.