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Definition of Angakoks
1. angakok [n] - See also: angakok
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angakoks
Literary usage of Angakoks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Inhabitants, Or, Mankind, Animals, and Plants: Being a Popular by George Thomas Bettany (1888)
"Witchcraft was also believed in, and though proscribed by the angakoks, was always
handed ... The angakoks, male or female, began preparation in childhood, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"It seems to have been the view of the angakoks that it was perfectly fair to hoist
... As to the priests or angakoks themselves, they were more formidable, ..."
3. Die Culturländer des alten America by Adolf Bastian (1878)
"... was transformed into the Christian devil, and those spirits over whom he ruled,
and whom he assigned to the angakoks äs tlieir guardian spirits, ..."
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