medicine-lodge

People have a confidence in the power of medicine to cure disease scarcely less than the dusky warrior has in the Indian medicine-lodge of the Western wilderness, and a confidence about as void of reason.

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

The next day at noon sharp Andramark stood before the entrance of the medicine-lodge with his arms folded; and all his boy and girl friends watched him from a distance.

It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

He might sit, or stand, or lie down; he might walk about; but he mustn't think of going to sleep, or, indeed, of anything but the knowledge and mysteries which had been revealed to him in the medicine-lodge.

It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

Andramark had never seen the inside of the medicine-lodge; but it was well known to be very dark, and to contain skulls and thigh-bones of famous enemies, and devil-masks, and horns and rattles and other disturbing and ghostly properties.

It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

It was quite obvious that the medicine-men were just having fun, not with him, but with all the women and children of the village who were outside listening -- at a safe distance, of course -- and imagining that the medicine-lodge was at that moment a scene of the most awful visitations and terrors.

It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

The right of the kin to 'separate worship' appears not only established within the kin's territory, but it is also recognized even at the central medicine-lodge of the tribe.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

Morning came, and he soon learned from some of his friends, the opinions of the wise men; and also the nature of the tribunal that was preparing for him; he sent to the prairie for his three horses, which were brought in, and he mounted the medicine-lodge, around which, in a few moments the villagers were all assembled.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

Of these kinds of sacrifices there are three of an interesting nature, erected over the great medicine-lodge in the center of the village-they consist of ten or fifteen yards of blue and black cloth each, purchased from the Fur Company at fifteen or twenty dollars per yard, which are folded up so as to resemble human figures, with quills in their heads and masks on their faces.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

Reader, I will return with you a moment to the medicine-lodge, which is just to be closed, and then we will indulge in some general reflections upon what has passed, and in what, and for what purposes this strange batch of mysteries has been instituted and perpetuated.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

They, only, were allowed as witnesses to the hocus pocus and conjuration devised by the doctors inside of the medicine-lodge; and they were called up by lot, each one in his turn, to spend

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841