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Record #147032:

Polarcirklens daemon / Hanne Guldberg Mikkelsen.

Title: Polarcirklens daemon / Hanne Guldberg Mikkelsen.
Translated title: The Arctic Circle's spook.
Author(s): Mikkelsen, Hanne Guldberg.
Date: 1998.
Language: Danish.
In: Grønland. (1998.), Vol. 3 (1998)
Abstract: Article explains frightening "qivittoq" - mountain wanderer - that still raises scalps among even most sophisticated Greenlanders, with two stories of such visitations and some further details, told by pupils at Aasiaat Gymnasium, one seen while family was watching video. Author makes clear that they are not "tupilaks", who have been largely domesticated for tourists.
Notes:

Grønland. Vol. 3 :107-111 (1998).

Keywords: 291.216 -- Belief in spirits.
39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo.
T -- Social anthropology and ethnography.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*38) -- Greenland.
SPRI record no.: 147032

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