sweat bath
Example Sentences
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Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
The person wishing to make trial of the virtues of the sweat bath entered the â´sĭ, a small earth-covered log house only high enough to allow of sitting down.
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
Therefore, when a child is named, four stones are heated for the sweat bath.
From Osage Traditions by Dorsey, James Owen
The sweat bath was in common use among almost all the tribes north of Mexico excepting the central and eastern Eskimo, and was considered the great cure-all in sickness and invigorant in health.
