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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Then you don't believe in angekoks?" asked Rooney. "No," replied the Eskimo earnestly; "I don't. I think they are clever scoundrels clever fools. And more, I don't believe in torngaks or any other spirits." "In that you are wrong," said Rooney. "There is one great and good Spirit, who made and rules the universe."
Observing the fresh skin in a corner, and one or two ribs, he bolted the bite, and said "O yes. My torngak is kind; he tells me many things without being asked. He said to me two days ago, `Okiok is a clever man. Though all the people are starving just now, he has killed a seal and a bear." "Can torngaks make mistakes?" asked Okiok, with a puzzled look.
After a few minutes' rest they began to run perhaps it were more correct to say waddle in the direction of "ze g'een cave." Now it chanced that the said cave was haunted at that time, not by torngaks or other ghosts, but by two men, one of whom at least was filled with an evil spirit.
"Many times I was swept off my feet by the violence of the gale, and once I was carried with such force towards a mass of upheaved ice that I expected to be dashed against it and killed, but just as this was about to happen the " "Torngak helped eh?" interrupted Okiok, with a simple look. "No; torngaks never help while we are above ground.
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