"tupilat" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Joelle Robert-Lamblin, Ammassalik, East Greenland - End or Presistance of an Isolate, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "... the word tupilak is used of a small carving 10 or 15 cm high representing a grotesque or composite being, stretched and slightly curved, following the shape of the sperm-whale tooth out of which it is carved. Some of these tupilat are inspired ...",
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          "ref": "1982, Jean Malaurie, The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos As They Face Their Destiny, New York: Dutton:",
          "text": "To repeat, what the Eskimo does fear are the spirits of the dead or evil spirits — toornat or tupilat — which can bring misfortune and the most terrible suffering before death. Tupilat, who usually have big ears, some sort of horns, large protruding ...",
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          "ref": "year unknown, The Acculturative Role of Sea Woman, Museum Tusculanum Press →ISBN, page 15",
          "text": "Tupilat were considered extremely dangerous and would demand stronger defence spirits than Equngasoq."
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          "ref": "1994, Deanna Swaney, Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet:",
          "text": "The Inuit did not fear death but they did fear such spirits including the toornot, the spirits of the dead; the tupilat, the hideous creatures that populate nightmares; and the qivittoq, the glacier spirits which could take possession of a person who ...",
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          "ref": "1971, Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington:",
          "text": "The Eskimos entertain a great fear of the Tupilat, the Spirits of the Dead, who kill every one daring to offend them.",
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          "ref": "1987, Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning, Saami religion:",
          "text": "Tupilat were there rumoured but neither fashioned nor seen. According to rumour , a tupilak could change size, from that of a fox to that of a caribou, and vice versa.",
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          "text": "Tupilat were considered extremely dangerous and would demand stronger defence spirits than Equngasoq."
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