The Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Adventure

Angakkuit: Shaman

• There were three kinds of angakkuit (shaman); those who went after people to kill them; those who were healers and those who lured wildlife to the camp.
• Angakkuit were able to see peoples’ wrong-doings.
• The angakkuq’s tuurngaq (spirit) was able to temporarily enter different life forms and commit murders.
• A person who committed a murder willfully was treated differently than a person who killed through shamanism. Neither were condoned, but when a person committed murder as a result of a shamanism, they were not held responsible for their actions.

(Source: Nunavut Arctic College: Interviewing Inuit Elders)