This is heralded by a tremendous blowing of horns.

The noise grows louder and louder until suddenly ten or more men run into the corral, each of them carrying two thick bundles of shredded cedar bark.
"Four times they run around the fire waving the bundles, which are then lighted.

Now begins a wild race around the fire, the rapid running causing the brands to throw out long streamers of flames over the hands and arms of the dancers.

The latter apply the brands to their own nude bodies and to the bodies of their comrades in front.

A warrior will seize the flaming mass as if it were a sponge, and, keeping close to the man he is pursuing, will rub his back with it as if bathing him.
The sufferer in turn catches up with the man in front of him and bathes him in flame.