Qiqirn

The supplied ethnographic summaries and referenced sources do not record a specific cosmogonic or origin narrative for the qiqirn; available accounts present it as a spirit‑like canine presence in Inuit tradition rather than providing a creation or origin story.

Traditionally described as a large, bald or hairless dog spirit with hair reported only on the feet, around the mouth, and on the tips of the ears and tail. Literary and modern fictional adaptations (e.g., Rudyard Kipling's 'Quiquern' or various game sources) expand or alter the form (additional legs, phantasmal features), but the ethnographic descriptions emphasize a large, mostly hairless canine shape.

The qiqirn's presence causes men and dogs to suffer convulsions or fits, sometimes fatally; these convulsions are described as ending only when the qiqirn leaves. Sources report that, despite the dangerous effects of its presence, the qiqirn is frightened of humans and will run away if an angakkuq (Inuit shaman) sees it. A scholarly interpretation (Daniel Merkur, as reported in summaries) suggests the fits may allude to shamanic initiation processes, an interpretive link rather than a directly attested native explanation in the cited material.