To rub a substance, usually an oil or ointment, onto a part of the body, usually as part of a religious ceremony. In Wiccan rituals this can be done for purification or consecration, and may be done to an object as well as to a person.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rick de Yampert, author of the new Crows and Ravens.
I was gobsmacked the time I looked out my living room window at the woods behind my Palm Coast, Florida, home and saw a crow hanging upside-down in...