Patussorssuaq, Who Killed His Uncle
This story is about a man who wanted his uncles wife for his own, even though he too had a wife. The uncle and his wife were getting ready to move and Patussorssuaq couldn't bear to be away from his uncles wife, so he killed his uncle. After killing his uncle, he went back to his tent to kill his wife, but she had already ran away to her family. Somehow there was a boy in the tent when Patussorssuaq got back and he told him his wife was gone but he didn't know where she was. He took his uncles wife as his own but she died soon thereafter. Then his uncles spirit came back as a fox and killed Patussorssuaq.
Angangujuk
This story is about a man, woman, and their son. One day the man went away on a hunting trip and the boy was playing around the house while the woman cleaned hides. The boy disappeared and when the husband returned, he though that she had killed him. He was getting ready to kill her, but she begged him to look for the boy first. It turns out that the boy had been taken by inland people. The man and woman had taken a shaman with them and they put a sleeping spell on the people that had their son and then snuck him out and back home.
Drawing of Inuit boy rom Godthaab. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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