The Tupilak Connection

Knud Rasmussen was as part-Danish, part-Inuit explorer who was born in Greenland. He collected folktales from the Inuit Eskimos there, which were published as Eskimo Folk-Tales (1921). Several of these stories speak of the dread Tupilak, a monster fashioned by a wizard out of the carcasses and bones of people and animals, all stuck together and brought to life by magic. Frankly, Tupilaks sound a lot like the monster from Frankenstein.

Is it possible that Frankenstein’s monster was heading...