cleansing ceremony
Sacred purging rite
A cleansing ceremony is a ritual intended to purify a person, place, or object of negative energy, spiritual contamination, or bad influences.
Many cultures and religions have versions—from smudging with sage in Native American traditions to baptism in Christianity to house blessings after a death.
The shaman performed a cleansing ceremony before the family moved into their new home.
- purificationRemoval of contaminants
- spiritual cleansingRitual removal of impurities
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sageWisdom keeper or seasoning
- smudgingMaking blurry marks
sacred smoke · incense · sacred · blessing · holy · holy water · water · smoke · prayer · altar · baptism · ritual bath · absolution · evil spirits · renewal · spirit · ashes · herbs
- Zulu traditionsancestors, ancestral spirits, diviner, traditional healer, ancestral worship
- smudgingsmudging, smudge stick, sage bundle, white sage, sacred smoke
- incenseincense burner, incense stick, incense burning, incense cone, incense holder
- Andean spiritualitycurandero, sun worship, mountain gods, coca leaves, earth goddess
cleansing ceremonydesecration
Violating something sacred
profanation · defiling · sullying · tainting · befoulment
cleansing ceremonymalediction
Verbal invocation of harm
hex · black mass · curse · jinx · dark ritual
cleanse, clean, cleaner, cleanest, cleanly, cleanliness, cleaned, cleaning, cleanser