According to one Greenland legend she was the daughter of a powerful angekok who, being overtaken by a storm, threw her out of the woman-boat to save himself.
In order to become an angekok a long apprenticeship is naturally required, frequently as much as ten years.
The strangest thing of all is that the soul could not only be lost in its entirety, but that pieces of it could also go astray; and then the angekok had to be called in to patch it up.
In order that the angekok may heal diseases he must be well paid; otherwise his arts will be of no avail.
These last were despatched by the angekok to show themselves in the form of ghosts, and thus to frighten to death those against whom the vengeance was directed.
Here, again, the tornak must take the angekok by the hand; the entrance is wide enough, but the further way is narrow as a thread or the edge of a knife, and passes over a horrible abyss.
The tornarssuk was regarded as, on the whole, a benevolent power; through his tornak the angekok could get into communication with him and obtain wise counsels.
For instance, the angekok used to blow upon a sick man in order to cure him or give him a new soul.
After this laborious journey, the angekok has the right to lie with the woman.
An angekok would as a rule have several, some acting as councillors, others as helpers in danger, and others, again, as avengers and destroyers.
The way to her abode is perilous, and the angekok must have his tornak with him.
The Angekok promised to behave better, and begged Haven to repeat his assurance of friendship.
Struck with the unexpected intrepidity of the missionary, and the appeal to a name of which they all had some knowledge, the Angekok was utterly confounded; he grumbled and foamed, but could not utter a word.
A light always comes among the Eskimo, when the tornak, or familiar spirit, visits the Angekok or sorcerer.
One of the oddest Angekok stories in Rink's Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (p.
Ippegoo is to be made an angekok to-night, and to be let off all the fasting and hard thinking and fits.
The angekoksaid this so sternly that the too willing Ippegoo collapsed, and looked, as he felt, superlatively humble.
The customs for the young angekok before he gets a torngak," replied the Eskimo.
You will make a good enough angekok in time, if you will only attend to what I say, and be obedient.
Before assuming the office of an angekok or diviner, an Eskimo must procure one of the spirits of the elements for his own particular familiar spirit or torngak.
I was just going to ask your wife, Okiok, what she and you think of this business of making an angekok of poor Ippegoo," said Rooney.
No; but I will make you anangekok to-night, and after that we may explore the wonders of the spirit-world together.
Sometimes they leave the angekok dark, for a purpose that is best known to themselves.
All the lights were now extinguished, for no one is allowed to witness the interview of the unfinished angekokwith the torngak, nor to move a finger for fear of disturbing him.
Is it not the duty of one who would be an angekok to go away and live alone for many days fasting, and praying, and meditating?
Yes, he even says that he is not an angekok at all; but we know better, for he is.
I did not wish to go, but an angekok must go forward and fear nothing when his torngak points the way.
Yet his distinct denial of being an angekok or wise man, and his sentiments regarding the voices of Nature, only confirmed his countrymen in their belief that he was the greatestangekok they had ever seen or heard of.
I only wish they would try to make an angekok of me.
During his absence, the angekok professes to visit the dwelling-place of the particular spirit he has invoked, and he will sometimes astonish his audience with a description of the nether-world and its inhabitants.
Therefore, when a lack of provisions is experienced, the angekok pays a visit to Aywilliayoo, and attacks her hand.
But if you want to become anangekok poglit, which is a fat priest (meaning a chief priest), it hurts a lot more, and takes much more time and trouble.
That's what an ordinary, every-day angekok has to do.
Anybody who thinks the angekok has an easy time of it on his voyage is mistaken.
The angekok lay on the floor, beside a suspended skin and drum, with his hands tied behind his back and his head between his legs.
A song was sung by the audience, and the angekok invoked his tornak, beating on the skin and the drum.
Kalutunah wasAngekok and Nalegak--priest and chief.
On seeing Mr. Hall the Angekok left his snow-platform, from which he had been speaking, and ran to him with the blandest smiles and honied words.
The Angekok began a rapid clapping of his hands, lifting them at times above his head, then passing them round in every direction, and thrusting them into the faces of the people, muttering the while wild, incoherent expressions.
Then Mr. Hall turned to the Angekok and said aloud, "If you go with me next spring on my explorations you shall have one of my best guns.
The Angekok had decided that her husband's spirit had taken temporary residence in a walrus, so she was forbidden that animal.
He whispers to Koojesse, "Would the Angekok be a good man to go with me in the spring to King William's Land?
When in the tent the Angekok placed Koojesse on one side, and Mr. Hall facing him on the other side.
She said she had given them to the Angekokfor his services in her sickness.
In the end the dark-skinned Kalutunah, enforcing his authority and asserting his dignity as the Angekok of the tribe, tersely and firmly said: "The white man shall have blubber!
Her husband's soul had passed into the body of a walrus as a temporary habitation, and Angekok Kalutunah had prescribed that for a certain period she should not eat the flesh of this animal.
In a spirit of hospitality the Angekok invited the voyagers to his encampment, where a feast of walrus blubber and meat would be given them.
The Angekok announces to the mourners into what animal the soul of the departed has passed, and henceforth, until the spirit has shifted its quarters, they are not to partake of the flesh of that animal.
Accordingly we made with the Angekok a treaty by which his people are to furnish as much food as we might want, and we are to supply them with wood, iron, knives, and needles at rates to be subsequently fixed upon.
The Angekok came with food, as usual, and at the same time there was a new visitor, a widow with a load of frozen birds--the little auks killed the summer before and stored for winter consumption.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angekok" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
