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The Inuits "Legends"

 

Origin of Misquitoes

Once upon a time, they was a camp of Inuit, but it faced hard times, for there was no game nor was there fish or seals for the taking. Slowly, one by one the people except for two old woman.

They survived by eating the lice found on each other. When eventually, a new group of Inuit arrived, they found all dead except the two old ladies.

Suspecting them of cannibalism, the old woman were immediately killed and their stomachs cut open, Frightened the lice grew wings and flew away and so the Mosquito was born.

 

 

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