“For this rite of self-fumigation every family of gypsies has also what is called an ‘Ateshkaini’, 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. BTG XLII

“Take, as an example, one of the most seemingly senseless of the customs there – one existing among a certain tribe of Asiatic beings called ‘Kolenian Loors’ or ‘Kolenian gypsies’ dwelling between Persia and Afghanistan, and which other beings there call ‘Gypsy self-fumigation’. BTG XLII

“The ‘rite of self-fumigation’ consists in this, that every member of the family and every guest of either sex before going into the principal section of the hut, is obliged to enter this sacred Mungull in order as they say to purify himself from the influence of those evil spirits by which man is surrounded when he is busy with honest work. BTG XLII