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shaking tent 
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 also: conjurer's lodge medicine-man (def. 1a)
- 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.
- 1935 His parents then consulted a conjuror . . . who interpreted the dream through the spirits of the shaking lodge, and restored the boy to health.