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Updated: June 16, 2025
And, after all, the appeal to their credulity was not as much overstrained as the civilised reader may fancy, for in their superstitious beliefs Eskimos held that there was one point in the training of a superior class of angekoks which necessitated the swallowing of the neophyte by a bear and his returning to his friends alive and well after the operation!
Our very hearts rejoiced in this place, which had but lately been a den of murderers, dedicated, as it were, by the angekoks, or sorcerers, to the service of the devil, to hear the cheerful voices of converted heathen, most melodiously sounding forth the praises of God, and giving glory to the name of Jesus their Redeemer.
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.
"He must be a fine man," said the sailor, becoming interested in this angekok; "tell me wherein he differs from others." "He is not only strong and wise, but he is good; and he cares nothing for our customs, or for the ways of other angekoks. He says that they are all lies and nonsense. Yes, he even says that he is not an angekok at all; but we know better, for he is. Everybody can see that he is.
As I have before told you, I love Nunaga and Nunaga loves me " "I I thought she loved Angut," said Ippegoo. "O idiot," exclaimed the wizard; "did I not tell you that you cannot understand? The loves of angekoks are not as the loves of ordinary men. Sometimes one's torngak makes the girl seem uncertain which man she likes best "
When aged women pretend to practise, or are suspected of witchcraft if the wife or child of a Greenlander happen to die if his fowling piece miss fire, or his arrow the mark at which it was shot the supposed sorceress is instantly stoned, thrown into the sea, or cut in pieces by the angekoks or male magicians.
While on his way to the hut of Okiok he had also observed that a few seals were playing about on the margin of some ice-floes, and from other symptoms, recognisable only by angekoks, he had come to the conclusion that it would be safe as well as wise at that time to prophesy a period of plenty.
But our angekoks believe in torngaks, familiar spirits, which they say meet and talk with them. There is no torngak. It is a lie." "But you believe in one great and good Spirit, don't you?" asked the seaman, with a serious look. "Yes; I believe in One," returned the Eskimo in a low voice, "One who made me, and all things, and who must be good."
"Yes, true; but I am to be changed!" returned the youth, with a bright look; then remembering that his role was solemnity, he dropped the corners of his mouth, elongated his visage, turned up his eyes, and groaned. "Have you the stomach twist, my boy?" asked his mother tenderly. "No; but I suppose I I am changing." "No, you are not, Ippe. I have seen many angekoks made.
On which two aged men, with long beards, coming up to him, said, 'We are Angekoks. Drachart took them by the hands, and introduced them to Sir Thomas Adams, who, with the sailors, had been standing by during the conversation, and told them, 'This is our captain, who is sent by a greater captain to invite you to visit him to-morrow. Sir Thomas then hastened back to Pitt's harbour, to give an account of this interview to the Commodore, who had remained there, and we continued our course a few miles farther north in St Louis Bay, where we remained during the night."
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