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Updated: June 9, 2025
The people believed it, and it may be that the Angakok really believed it himself, though I have some doubt about that. "Listen, my children," said the Angakok, "and I will tell you wonderful things. "There is a world beneath the sea! You catch glimpses of that world yourselves in calm summer weather, when the water is still, and you know that I speak the truth!
They had listened to every word about the Old Woman of the Sea, and how the Angakok traveled to the moon. You know I told you before that Koko was six. He wanted to know all about things. So he spoke right out in the dark, when every one else was still. He said, "Mother, if the Angakok can go anywhere he wants to, why couldn't he get out of the tunnel?" Koko's mother tried to hush him up.
Both his wives were thin. Their faces looked like baked apples all brown and wrinkled. When they reached Kesshoo's house, the Angakok went into the tunnel first. Now I can't tell you whether he had grown fatter during the five days, or whether the entrance had grown smaller, but this much I know: the Angakok got stuck! He couldn't get himself into the room no matter how much he tried!
These were all devils in disguise, the spirits of foul poison, such as she deemed must kill even the Master. Now Glooskap, foreseeing all this, had taken with him, as he came, from a bog many cranberries. These are really the souls of still-born or murdered infants, who have become imps. The first thing which the angakok or sorcerer, who visits her must do is to free her from these pests.
Don't you know how water shrinks the walrus hide cords that we tie around things when we want them to hold tight together?" It was lucky for Menie and Koko that nobody heard them say that about the Angakok. It would have been thought very disrespectful.
He ran to get it, and then the twins and the pups all four started for Koko's house. Koko's house was clear at the other end of the village. But that was not far away, for there were only five igloos in the whole town. First there was the igloo where the twins lived. Next was the home of Akla, the Angakok, and his two wives. Then there were two igloos where several families lived together.
But everybody in the whole village where Menie and Monnie live was simply astonished to see twin babies! They had never known of any before in their whole lives. Old Akla, the Angakok, or Medicine Man of the village, shook his head when he heard about them. He said, "Such a thing never happened here before. Seals and human beings never have twins! There's magic in this."
The splash was so great that in a moment the waves it made reached the boats. The boats rocked up and down on the water and bounced about like corks. The twins and Koko thought this was great fun, but the Angakok didn't like it a bit. One wave splashed over him, and some of the water went down his neck.
"Why doesn't somebody help me?" Kesshoo and Koolee seized him under his arms. They pulled and pulled. The two wives pushed him from behind. "I-yi! I-yi!" screamed the Angakok. "You will scrape my skin off!" He kicked out behind with his feet. His wives backed hastily, to get out of the way. That made them bump into Koko's mother who was just behind them.
"Then you can see the shadows of rocks and islands and glaciers in the smooth water. Far below you see blue sky and white clouds. That is the calm world in which the Spirits of the Dead live. I have visited that underworld, many times, I have talked there with the spirits of your ancestors." The Angakok paused and looked around to see if every one was paying attention.
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