The Devil Fish is a divine fish living in the Arctic Ocean. He has numerous jobs:Toivo Lehtisalo, a Finnish ethnologist, learned all this from a Samoyed shaman.
- with his spirit he creates the clouds, rain, and aurora borealis
- in the spring he sends from his stomach anadromous fish shoals
- he splashes with his tail to start off dolphins which drive fish shoals in front of them
- the seers descend to him