Kane considers it a fact of psychological interest, as it shows that civilised or savage wonder-workers form a single family, that the angekoks have a firm belief in their own powers.
While the angekoks are the dispensers of good, the issintok, or evil men, are the workers of injurious spells, enchantments, and metamorphoses.
The Homeric debate at a close, the angekoks hold a powwow, and a penalty is denounced against the accused for his guilt, or the accuser for his unsustained prosecution.
The angekoks claimed to have the power of remedying this state of things by paying a visit to the abode of the Fury.
If they did, angekoks would only have to listen to all they had to tell on every subject, and there would be an end of it; they would have no occasion to use their judgments at all.
But our angekoksbelieve in torngaks, familiar spirits, which they say meet and talk with them.
No one thought his conduct strange, or sought to disturb him, for angekoks belong to a privileged class.
The same authority also informs us that angekoks "speak in a metaphorical style sometimes, in order to exhibit their assumed superiority in learning and penetration.
The loves of angekoks are not as the loves of ordinary men.
When Haven here began to speak of the Saviour, the Angekoks began to exercise their enchantments.
But the Angekoks had assumed a secular power, which they did not possess in Greenland, and exercised at once the office of priest and a chief, of a sorcerer, a thief, and a murderer.
Another source of seduction to the half-informed heathen, was the use which the Angekoks made of the little knowledge of Christianity which they had obtained.
When Egede spoke of spiritual gifts, they asked for good health and blubber: "Our Angekoksgive us that.
After seeing a woman scourged on shipboard for misbehavior, they came innocently enough to Egede and suggested that some of their best Angekoks be sent down to Denmark to teach the people to be sober and decent.
The natives naturally clung to them, and when Egede had mastered their language and tried to make clear that the Angekoks deceived them when they pretended to go to the other world for advice, they demurred.
Nansen reports, the angekoks are the wisest and also the craftiest of all Eskimos.
While the angekoks commune with the spirits in the presence of other people, the ilisitsoks' dealings with the supernatural powers are carried on in the deepest secrecy and always to noxious ends.
Many husbands even regard this with favour, and will sometimes pay the angekoks to lie with their wives, especially if they themselves have no children by them.
With him, as with all the other supernatural beings, it probably depended on the angekoks whether he should be beneficent or the reverse.
In ancient days, after a long drought, the angekoks would set out for his abode to beg for rain.
Their tornarssuk is a much less imposing creature, who dwells in the sea, and whom many people, both angekoks and others, can see and have seen.
By reason of their connection with the supernatural world, the most esteemed angekoks have considerable authority over their countrymen, who are afraid of the evil results which may follow any act of disobedience.
This dog takes only a few winks of sleep every now and then, and one must be ready to seize the opportunity; but this only the highest angekoks can manage.
The angekoks explained to Hans Egede that souls were 'quite soft to the touch, indeed scarcely tangible at all, just as if they had neither muscle nor bone.
The influence of these angekoks of course depended upon their adroitness; but they do not seem to have been mere charlatans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angekoks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
