Blood (Verb)
Meaning
Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The young warrior was blooded by the elder with the deer's blood during the hunting initiation rite.
- In the initiation rite, the faces of the new hunters were blooded with the blood of their first kill.
- The elder hunter took some of the bear's blood and blooded the faces of the novice hunters.
- The shaman blooded the new recruits with the blood of the sacred animal.
- After the successful hunt, the hunters blooded the faces of the apprentices as a sign of acceptance.