Tupilak
The tupilak is a spirit figure of the Greenlandic Inuit, assembled by an angakkuq, a shaman, from the parts of animals, bone, skin, hair and sinew, sometimes joined with the remains of a dead child, and given life through ritual chants so that it could be sent against an enemy. The tupilak was cast into the sea and swam to its victim, but the magic was dangerous in both directions: if the victim proved stronger, the spirit was said to turn back on its maker, and only a public confession could break its power. Because the figures were made from perishable matter, none of the true tupilak surviv