kerokan

English

Noun

kerokan (uncountable)

1. A sometimes injurious traditional Indonesian folk cure wherein a coin or ladle is drawn across the back in order to draw wind or bad spirits from the body.
   • 2007 December 3, Paul Vitello, “From Stand in Long Island Slavery Case, a Snapshot of a Hidden U.S. Problem”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Whatever injuries the women may have suffered, the lawyers said, were self-inflicted in the practice of a traditional Indonesian folk cure known as kerokan.