Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Ateshkain

 

42 Beelzebub in America

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“For this rite of self-fumigation every family of gypsies has also what is called an, ‘Ateshkain,’ that is, a stool of special form which they regard as sacred; and this whole ritual of theirs they perform with the aid of this sacred stool.