angakuts

Updated: May 18, 2025

Muller are most powerful in developing rank? Even among those democratic paupers, the Fuegians, 'the doctor-wizard of each party has much influence over his companions. Among those other democrats, the Eskimo, a class of wizards, called Angakuts, become 'a kind of civil magistrates, because they can cause fine weather, and can magically detect people who commit offences.

Andrew Lang - Custom and Myth