During the long Dark, people do not go out fishing; they only pay visits to one another and sing drum-songs. Only when a bear ventures near the houses, or hides himself in a hollow in a glacier, do they light big torches and hunt it.
When the constellation of the Great Bear is seen at dawn men are filled with great delight; for then it will not be long till the light comes again.
And when at last the Sun comes men call out: "Joy! joy! the great Warmer has come; soon we shall be able to seek the sunny side!" And then comes the time when people build sheltering walls of snow and gather round a man's meat at great banquets.
Told by Maisanguaq (a man of about thirty).
There was once upon a time a woman who ran away to the hills; she could not walk, but had to crawl, for her husband had stabbed the soles of her feet with his knife.
On her way she saw a sledge going along through the air. This was the Great Man in the Moon.
"Ho! Great Man in the Moon," she called to him, and he came to her. When he had come near to her, he wished to have her for his wife.
On his sledge he had many seal-skins; he began to take them off, so that she could sit down on the bottom one.
"Shut your eyes!" he said to her, and then they drove up through the air.
"When you come into my house you must not on any account look in the direction of the Sun; nor must you smile, for then the Stealer of Entrails would cut the intestines out of your body," the man explained to her.
It is said that just by the side of the Moon there lives a man who steals the intestines out of people. He is the cousin of the Moon. He visits the Moon and dances drum-dances with him. During his singing and dancing, he tries to make people laugh, and if he can make them even smile, he rips up their bodies and
