sweat bath
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On that day the first sweat bath is taken, and one also upon each succeeding day until four baths, as a ceremony of purification, have been indulged in.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James
Therefore, when a child is named, four stones are heated for the sweat bath.
From Osage Traditions by Dorsey, James Owen
These stones glowing white with heat are placed in a tiny pit underneath the covering of this booth, now to be called his sweat bath.
From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth
He lay a cripple in Montenegro six months, but in the summer crawled down to the Bocche de Cattaro and on the sweltering shores of the Adriatic built himself a primitive sweat bath.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora
Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
