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piblokto

or 辱·dz·ٴ

[ pi-blok-toh ]

noun

Psychology.
plural pibloktos.
  1. a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Inuit women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of piblokto1

First recorded in 1955–60, piblokto is from the Inuit word pibloktoq
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He also began a long songwriting collaboration in the early 1980s with the keyboardist Phil Ryan, a former member of Piblokto!, that produced several albums through 2013.

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Dog fights were hourly occurrences, and we lost a great many by the ravages of the mysterious Arctic disease, piblokto, which affects all dog life and frequently human life.

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Poor brute, it was no use, and in a short while he commenced to develop symptoms of the dread piblokto, so in mercy he was killed.

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Aside from rheumatism and bronchial troubles, the Eskimos are fairly healthy; but the adults are subject to a peculiar nervous affection which they call piblokto—a form of hysteria.

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I have never known a child to have piblokto; but some one among the adult Eskimos would have an attack every day or two, and one day there were five cases.

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