angakok

Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Among the Eskimo the _angakok_, or shaman, trains his child from infancy in the art of sorcery, taking him upon his knee during his incantations and conjurations.

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

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.

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

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

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

The performance of a self-confident angakok is quite impressive -- if one has not witnessed it too many times before.

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

Once, years ago, my little brown people got tired of an angakok, one

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

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

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

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.

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888