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- noun Plural form of
angakok .
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Examples
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Kids who were good chokers became angakoks when they grew up.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Kids who were good chokers became angakoks when they grew up.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Kids who were good chokers became angakoks when they grew up.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Girls, too, among the Eskimo, could become _angakoks_ or shamans.
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
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Their religion, like that of most primitive peoples, is a simple animism, interpreted by the angakoks or medicine-men and enforced by numerous taboos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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I tell the children how some people believe that the angakoks, the shamans, swim down to the depths of the ocean to comb Sedna’s hair for her.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I tell the children how some people believe that the angakoks, the shamans, swim down to the depths of the ocean to comb Sedna’s hair for her.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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