Qalupalik

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In culture

Film

• Ame Papatsie adapted the myth as a stop motion animation short Qalupalik, produced by the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada through its Nunavut Animation Lab. The film made its world premiere at the 2010 Terres en vues/Land InSights festival.

  Books

• Canadian children's literature author Robert Munsch featured the Qalupalik in his 1988 book A Promise is a Promise, co-authored with Inuit writer Michael Kusugak and illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka. The protagonist of the story is caught by the Qalupalik and promises to bring all her siblings to them if they let her go. The Qalupalik agrees, and the child confesses her promise to her parents, who help her outsmart the monsters.

  Fine art

• Ningeokuluk Teevee exhibited the painting, Legend of Qalupalik, at Spirit Wrestler Gallery.

  Television

• In Helix: "Survivor Zero", Anana, an Inuit policewoman whose brother Miksa went missing when they were children and who is investigating the Arctic biostation as the possible location where 31 stolen children were taken, tells Sergio Ballesaros she and other children were cautioned to stay near their people's hunting sites, lest the Qalupalik steal them; she likens the Qalupalik to the bogeyman. Sergio, in turn, confides that children from the favelas in his hometown, Espírito Santo, Brazil, also went missing and implied he was one of them.
• In season 9 episode 10 of Murdoch Mysteries, constable George Crabtree believed the culprit of a murder to be a Qalupalik until realising that the constabulary was in possession of the victim's body, contrary to the belief that a Qalupalik drags its victims beneath the sea.