I can tell you about amajuqsuk, a troll woman, of whom all little children go in fear and trembling. We mothers use her to frighten them when they will not do as they are told.

Excerpt from research notes [Netsilik Region] (825: p.80)

In folkloric tradition of Canadian Inuits Amajurjuk is a giant woman with pouch on her back where she puts little children. She may wear the traditional Inuit parka called amaut and which has built-in baby-poach right below the hood. Sometimes though this poach is not part of her dress but part of her body. It formed by drifting wood and this poach has a smell of rotting seaweed (852: p.187).

It is said that there lives a great giantess somewhere up inland, called Amautalik, because she has a great amaut (pouch) on her back. In this pouch she puts the people she steals away. So big is this amaut that ever grown-up people look like children up there.

Recorded in the Kivalliq Region in the early 1900s (861: p.76)

In spite of widespread notion that belief in Amajurjuks are gone from human dwellings and even don't exist anymore, the story of encounter with one were recorded in 1999 by scholars. "Felix Pusuk from Kangiq&iniq reported that he saw one close to the community. He described her as a big woman wearing a big caribou amaut. One should not aproach the spirit ir run away from it; running away would cause death or great sicknessi" (852: p.187).

This figure bears much resemblance to Qalupalik and Dsonokwa, female demon in Kwakwaka'wakw mythology.