Reading Notes: Eskimo Folk Tales Part A

 The Giant Dog

There was a man with a giant dog who can swim in the sea and catch whale and narwhal. The dog ate a man and the owner has to leave. The dog often go and attack the inland-dwellers and bring their legs back. From this, the inland-dwellers got their great fear of all dogs. It is good that the giant dog frightened the inland-dwellers because they had a custom of carrying off lonely folk, especially women, when they lost their way to the fog. 

Qalagánguasê, Who Passed to the Land of Ghosts

Qalagánguasê was a boy who is weak and paralyzed from the waist down. The hunters he lived with go hunt and leave him alone in the house. Every night the ghosts come and keep him company. One day, the boy felt left behind and follow the ghosts to the land of ghosts, so he became a ghost. His villagers never see him again.

Giant Dog at Wikisource

Bibliography: "Eskimo Folk Tales" by Knud Rasmussen. Source