Beings beneath the sea ice whose names, number, and appearance vary among Inuit communities. A commonly published form is humanlike, with long dark hair and a pouch or amauti used to carry away children who approach dangerous cracks or the floe edge alone.
The warning is inseparable from Arctic geography. Sea ice moves, opens, thins, and can conceal water under snow; a voice or tapping from below turns those hazards into a presence children can remember. The archive uses the plural Qallupilluit while retaining common alternate spellings for search. It does not flatten the tradition into a universal 'Inuit sea monster': community versions and Inuktut dialects differ.