{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/cm/cm28.htm","path":"asia/cm/cm28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/cm/cm28.htm","text":"This is an incantation for (hunting) sea-game. When hunters, having gone out in a boat, have found a herd of walrus sleeping on the ice, and the ice is not solid, (so that) the boat makes a noise striking against small pieces of ice floating around, but the walrus are sleeping; oh, one makes (the following) incantation, and says, \u2014\n\"O walrus! I put your ears on a (broad) iron pan, lest you [the walrus] should be able to hear the rapping-noise [the sleeping walrus].\" Then the hunters are (able) to approach, and catch all (of the herd).\nTold by V\u1ecby\u00eanto\u00b4 the Blind, a Maritime Chukchee man, at Mariinsky Post, October, 1900.\n1 Compare Vol. VII of this series, p. 498, No. 3.","title":"6. For Hunting Sea-Game.","type":"page"}