DCHP-2
conjurer's lodge 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 also: conjuring-box jonglerie juggling machine medicine-man (def. 1a) medicine tent (def. 2) shaking lodge
- 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.
- 1945 . . . the magician would build, a small circular conjuror's lodge of poles thrust into the ground and covered with skins. . . .