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Definition of Angakok
1. an Eskimo medicine man [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angakok
Literary usage of Angakok
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 by United States World's Columbian Commission. Committee on Awards (1901)
"Both the "old fellow'' and the angakok possessed the power to "go right through"
the side or ... The angakok often escaped, hut sometimes he was caught, ..."
2. The Fall of Torngak, Or, The Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador by J. W. Davey (1905)
"CHAPTER XXII THE angakok, OR VOICES IN THE DARK IN spite of all fair speech on
the part of the natives, and the most sanguine hopes of the Church, ..."
3. The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art, and Literature edited by J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish (1894)
"In order to do this, the angakok, accompanied by one other man, ... What immediately
follows only the angakok knows, but the writer has been informed by the ..."
4. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic by Robert Edwin Peary (1910)
"The angakok is generally not loved — he knows too many unpleasant things that
... The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into ..."
5. The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1914)
"Ill After a while the angakok turned his face to the wall, as he always did when
he meant to ... The angakok knew the secrets of the sun, moon, and stars. ..."
6. The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought: (The Child in Primative Culture) by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896)
"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 ..."
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