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Overview

The sisters leave their family with a small dogskin, a piece of footwear skin and a fire stone. They hide from searching relatives and refuse to return when hunters encounter them. Facing starvation, they become thunder spirits. Shaking the dry skin brings south-westerly gales, striking the stone produces celestial fire, and their tears become rain.

Their father attempts to recover them through spirit-calling but stops when he learns they are dead. They later terrify people to death, beginning with their parents, and spare a woman carrying a child so she can report what happened. The account imagines even stones moving in fear and says the sisters themselves fear a red dog. The source's associated protective practice is not reproduced as an instruction or presented as meteorological causation.

Sisters transformed after mountain withdrawalWeather linked to skin, stone and tearsFear of a red dog
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Origins & earliest records

The volume's final source list assigns this narrative to Smith Sound, northern Greenland. Knud Rasmussen collected the material; W. Worster edited and translated the1921 English selection. No individual storyteller is named for this episode. Worster explicitly states that he selected clear versions and omitted or edited passages, so this is not an unabridged oral-performance transcript.

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Records & interpretation

Complete selected narrative and regional source-list entry read. The Thunder Spirits, begins printed p.111. The editorial omission and translation limitations recorded in the introduction remain explicit.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Eskimo Folk-Tales

    Knud Rasmussen, collector; W. Worster, editor and English translator · 1921

    The Thunder Spirits, begins printed p.111. Complete episode and regional source-list attribution checked.

Family & connections

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References

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  1. Primary textRasmussen/Worster1921: The Thunder Spirits, begins printed p.111.Research access: 2026-10-05

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