angakok

Or an·ge·kok

[ang-guh-kok]

noun

1. a shaman in Inuit society.

Word History and Origins

Origin of angakok¹

First recorded in 1760–70; from Danish angekok (earlier angekkok ), from Inuit (Greenlandic, eastern Canada) angakkoq

Example Sentences

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 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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Once, years ago, my little brown people got tired of an angakok, one Kyoahpahdo, who had predicted too many deaths; and they lured him out on a hunting expedition from which he never returned.

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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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