| 释义 |
angekok|ˈæŋgɪkɒk|
[Eskimo.]
An Eskimo sorcerer or medicine-man.
1767J. Gambold tr. Cranz's Hist. Greenland I. 206 When a dearth befalls them [sc. Greenlanders] at sea, an Angekok must undertake a journey thither. 1819Edin. Rev. XXXI. 345 Their conjurors or angekoks are merely a superior order of jugglers. 1837[see conjure v. 5 a]. 1842R. Moffat Mission. Labours S. Africa 305 The angekoks of the Greenlanders..and the greegrees of Western Africa. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 147 The angekok, the sorcerer, frightened them into the most delightful fits. |