What is "angekok"

Usage examples of "angekok".

With Angekok, the last of our Eskimos to remain faithful to me, I am setting out over the ice.

We can eat the dogs as need arises and Angekok says that there are mushrooms that grow underground here.

I always kept my revolver handy - and, although I longed to, I could never mention to Angekok that I had seen his secret temple.

While Angekok had often slept, exhausted from his satanic ecstasies, I had explored this cavern and now it was my fervent hope that an underground stream might bear me from this fate.

Eye of Malsum, Angekok and his cruel price for hospitality and the shadowy shapelessness of a darkling demon summoned from out an icy sky!

Then Angekok looked at me and his eyes were like holes cut in a mask of rawhide.

That Angekok was a title, something like witchdoctor or medicine-man, but it brought me no comfort.

The main company of the expedition wanted to sit tight with the tents and weather it out, but Angekok insisted that we would be better off tramping blindly through the snow.

I switched on the torch and found Angekok there before me, his arms folded across his chest.

There would be no way I was going to explore this place without Angekok breathing down my neck.

I knew it, Angekok had crawled up to me and was within slashing distance with his knife.

My guess is that they were summoned there by Angekok and much preferred to have nothing to do with the area if it was left to them to decide.

Professor Webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in Roman letters as best he knew how.