Greenland
regionReal-world: Greenland
The arctic land where Professor Webb, touring in search of Runic inscriptions, encountered high on the West Greenland coast a singular tribe of degenerate Eskimos whose religion was a curious form of devil-worship.
Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before the 1908 meeting, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth. High up on the West Greenland coast he encountered a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Eskimos whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness and repulsiveness.
Of prime significance was the fetish this cult cherished, around which they danced when the aurora leaped high over the ice cliffs.
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“Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of some Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth; and whilst high up on the West Greenland coast had encountered a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Eskimos whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness and repulsiveness.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“But just now of prime significance was the fetish which this cult had cherished, and around which they danced when the aurora leaped high over the ice cliffs.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse