-Papik married into a family of great hunters
-he was always competing with his brother in law Ailaq
-he began plotting his revenge on Ailaq, but one day when they were out hunting he snapped and murdered his brother in law
-he tried to cover it up as if an animal had killed him but his mother in law knew the truth and vowed to seek revenge
-she had a heart attack the next week from the stress, but on her death bed said she would come back to haunt and kill Papik
-years later a monster was heard to roaming the village, but no one ever got a close look
-then when Papik when out to hunt and did not return his wife knew something was wrong
-he had been murdered and his boyd mutilated with the words vengeance written in the snow beside him in blood
The Wife Who Lied:
-have a grandma telling this to her grandchildren
-about a young girl who went back to her own village and told lies of how her husband mistreated her
-war broke out between the two tribes
-the one tribe at first killed all the women while the men were away, but the other tribe avenged their deaths by retaliating and conquering the first tribe
-the girl who had told the lie and started all of this death a lonely and painful death
-this story was told to little children to illustrate the importance of the truth not only for yourself but also for others' sake
The Eagle and the Whale:
-seven brothers lived with their two sisters
-the sisters were content to live there as a family, but the brothers had become convinced that they would never be happy until they were settled and married
-they chose two suitors for the sisters who they thought were respected and mighty but they did not know how demanding and overbearing they would be as husbands
-soon the sisters were homesick and unhappy
-they all began plotting on how to escape their husbands and return home
-the brothers had to fight the husbands with the help of their sisters to gain the sister's freedom back
Bibliography:
Eskimo Folk Tales by Knud Rasmussen
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