angakok
or an·ge·kok
[ang-guh-kok]
- a shaman in Eskimo society.
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Origin of angakok
1760–70; < German < Inuit (Greenlandic) angeqok
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The thong is attached to the end of a stick which is held in hand by the angakok.
To the Eskimos it was a proof of the efficacy of the appeal to the Angakok.
Ungava BobDillon Wallace
Tuavituk, the Angakok, it was decided, must do some conjuring.
Ungava BobDillon Wallace
The angakok is generally not loved—he knows too many unpleasant things that are going to happen, so he says.
The North PoleRobert E. Peary
The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.
The North PoleRobert E. Peary