"The Ainu People" introduces supernatural abilities ueinkar (clairvoyance or second sight) and tus (phychomancy) of some Ainu people. The book reports on an ikoinkar who had the abilities of tus and ueinkar as well as her skilled midwifery, from interviews and recorded information. The midwifery basically using her fingers and foot (arbitrarily selected) was equivalent, or even superior to present obstetric treatment in hospitals in that, at the very beginning of a baby's life, she tried to find abnormality in the baby's backbone and, if she found it, fixed the trouble on the spot. She told the sex of unborn baby with 100% of accuracy by examination touch or her ueinkar.

Ikoinkar

Ainu Kotan

To The White Sea
James Dickey