| They organise dances and gatherings to whip up the spirits, then go into trances. |
| I've seen the mandalas and lights and patterns of delirium and drug trips, watched the shamans in their trances during field research. |
| He was a big, burly, baldish man, patient and good-natured, but given to blank trances of absence of mind. |
| The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence. |
| The fits, trances and visions that attended revivalistic religion in this era were seen by many as evidence of the workings of the Holy Spirit. |
| People sitting in the big top were in trances, distracted by the cracking of peanut hulls and dazzled by spangled spandex wardrobes. |
