1541) Ghost Stories in Greenland (Kalaalit Nunaat): A set of two postage stamps in the denominations of 45.5 DKK (Danish Kroner) and 1.0 DKK issued by Post Greenland: Date of Stamp Set issue: 06.11.2020:
The early Norse settlers named the island as Greenland. In the indigenous Greenlandic language it is called "Kalaalit Nunaat". The "Kalaalit" are the indigenous Greenlandic Inuit people who inhabit the country's Western region.
Ghost stories in Greenland:
In Greenland, belief in ghosts lives side by side and is an important cultural relic of shamanism.
This is reflected, among other things, in many Greenlandic myths and legends.
Greenland has over 100 stories on hauntings, Black Mass, mysterious nightly knocks on the doors, uninvited passengers and otherworldly experiences. Greenland's mythical creatures, ghosts and animals are sometimes quite scary.
For example an "Annnigiag" is a baby (or foetus) born in secret and then killed. Its spirit continues to on its otherworldly journey looking for love of which it was robbed, chasing relatives when they are sailing and trying to pull them under the sea to drown them. The spirit can also crawl into later-born siblings and kill them by causing internal hemorrhaging.
"Erlaveersinioq" is a hideous and old crone with a face wider than it is long. She tries to make people laugh, and if they do, she will jump at them and gut them taking their lives or their intestines.
There is also the story of "Ikusik" ( a corpse - like the "Walking Dead") that crawlson itselbows, dragging its feet behind it. Its forearms have rotted away and yet it can move at great speed, it it needs to, nd catch a grown person running. It hunts humans and eats then alive.
Then, there is the story of the fate a Western Settlement of about 1,500 Vikings who vanished suddenly in the 14th Century. It presents a gothic horror story - a remote outpost cut off from civilisation. It seems that a Norweigean sheriff priest came to find out why the colony had stopped paying taxes to the Norwegian King. On his arrival, his group did not find any humans, but only wild cattle and sheep. The ghosts of the lost civilisation still cast a shadow on the enduring mystery of the lost colony.
The stamps:
Several Stamps have been issued since the 1950s featuring ghost stories in Greenland.
These two stamp designs have been created by Maria Bach Kreutsmann and Christian Fleischer Rex.
At top right are affixed the two stamps issued in the set - the one at left showing a banshee flying in the air to catch its victims and the other a werewolf with a knife hunting its prey, while a ghostly figure watches from the background.
The Special Cancellation Handstamp/Postmark has a ghostly figure in its centre and is of Tasiilaq. The date of Cancellation is - "06.11.2020".
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