angakok

American  

[ang-guh-kok] / ˈæŋ gəˌkɒk /

Or angekok

noun

1. a shaman in Inuit society.

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Etymology

Origin of angakok

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

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Example Sentences

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angakok

The angakok is generally not loved—he knows too many unpleasant things that are going to happen, so he says.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

"The angakok," or sorcerer of Greenland, "after meeting with tomarsuk, or guardian spirits, sometimes manifested it by his feet sinking into the rocky ground just as if in snow."

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

But on entering the house he looked exceedingly pale, because of the great angakok wisdom he had acquired down in the old grave.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain

The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

Lastly, the ghost from the grave came out, and being called upon by the angakok, he entered the house to fetch the boy, who only perceived a strong smell of maggots, and then fainted away.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain

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