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conjuring-box

n. among Indians, a small, hut-like structure used by a medicine man (def. 1 a) to demonstrate his magical powers by freeing himself from bonds and conversing with spirits.
See also: conjurer's lodge medicine-man (def. 1a)
- 1771 (1911) On such extraordinary occasions a conjuring-house is erected.
- 1784-1812 (1916) On one of these occasions . . . we found the above Indian preparing his conjuring box. . . .
- 1903 Had it been a question of Rupert's River Crees with their . . . conjuring-lodges . . . the affair might have been different.
- 1935 The conjuror . . . derived his power from a vision at puberty, when a manido visited him and conferred upon him the special gift of divining by means of the conjuring lodge.