angakok
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of angakok
First recorded in 1760–70; from Danish angekok (earlier angekkok ), from Inuit (Greenlandic, eastern Canada) angakkoq
Example Sentences
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Besides the angakok mentioned by Mr. Tylor, Dr. Rink, in his Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, has two other stories of escapes from the stomach of a dead animal when it is cut open.
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The angakok is generally not loved—he knows too many unpleasant things that are going to happen, so he says.
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The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.
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The performance of a self-confident angakok is quite impressive—if one has not witnessed it too many times before.
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Some women are supposed to possess the power of the angakok—a combination of the gifts of the fortune teller, the mental healer, and the psalmodist, one might say.
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