medicine dance

English

Noun

medicine dance (plural medicine dances)

  1. A ritual dance ceremony performed as a form of therapy.
    • 1994, Mike Hayes, Tell Us Anothree! More yarns from all around Australia, Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published 2001, page 83:
      The medicine man, remembering the previous winter's disastrous prediction, decided to cover himself. So he did a medicine dance, threw some spirit dust around and proclaimed, "Winter will be bad."
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