1823  Thus, for example, when they became scarce . . . when the evil genius took away . . . the animals which constitute the principal food of the Enuee, our Angekok was employed to bring them back again.
1906  Some of my natives wished to go up to the camping-place of the Southampton natives, and get them to practise their angakok art and see what was the cause of the whale acting so badly....
1964  Apart from the opposition of some angakoks, or conjurers, Christianity had easy play with the ancient Eskimo range of ideas.