After a death has occurred in a dwelling, even though it was that of a distant relative incidentally staying with the family, the house is destroyed, or the cave permanently abandoned; and many other superstitious apprehensions of one kind or another may thus influence the people.

Very often a man moves for the sake of benefiting the land, and after tearing down his house he immediately plants corn on the spot on which the house stood.

A family may thus change its abode several times a year, or once a year, or every other year.

The richest man in the Tarahumare country, now dead, had five caves, and moved as often as ten times in one year.
A never absent feature of the Tarahumare habitation, be it house or cave, is a level, smooth place in front of it.

This is the dancing place, or patio, on which he performs his religious exercises, and he may have more than one.