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conjurer's lodge

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among Indians, a small, hut-like structure used by a medicine man (def. 1a) to demonstrate his magical powers by freeing himself from bonds and conversing with spirits.

See: conjuring-box,jonglerie,juggling machine,medicine-man(def. 1a),medicine tent(def. 2),shaking lodge

Quotations

1945

. . . the magician would build, a small circular conjuror's lodge of poles thrust into the ground and covered with skins. . . .

1956

A more elaborate way of seeing into the future was by means of the Conjuror's Lodge, a hut built of sheets of birch bark or of mats. Into this the medicine man was carried, often bound hand and foot.