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shaking tent
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.
Quotations
1935
His parents then consulted a conjuror . . . who interpreted the dream through the spirits of the shaking lodge, and restored the boy to health.
1965
It is said that one old man at Nemiscau is capable of performing the shaking tent rite and on occasion still does.