dead kin as escorts

inuit

• Eskimo Folk-Tales KUNIGSEQ / THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BEAR AS A FOSTER-SON / IMARASUGSSUAQ, WHO ATE HIS WIVES / QALAGANGUASE, WHO PASSED TO THE LAND OF GHOSTS; lines 1726-1817 confidence: high

  While he is alone, his mother and father, both dead, come in and ask why he is there.

  Qalaganguase's dead mother and father come to him when he is left alone and take him away to the land of ghosts.

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