Bad spirits haunt Greenland bureaucrats

The Financial Times reported this week that Jens Lyberth, a senior civil servant within Premier Hans Enoksen’s government, called in a “spiritual distance healer” to improve relations between Danish and Greenlandic Inuit employees.

The healer, Maannguaaq Berthelsen, says it took her twice as long as normal to clean the “bad vibes” out of Greenland’s government offices.

Her efforts, however, may have created even more bad vibes between the government and other Greenlanders.

Church leaders in Lutheran Greenland are reportedly incensed, and Per Berthelsen, leader of the opposition Democrats, said “witch doctors” and “unga-bunga practices” have no place in modern Greenland.