The Khanty Shaman's legacy

Ear candles and ear candling have been popular for the past few decades. It is a significant part of alternative and complementary medicine. It is not an easy task to find the historical origin of ear candling. There are numerous articles on this subject.

We believe we found an undeniable piece of evidence for the ancient nature of ear candle as an equipment and ear candling as a method.

Hungarian ethnographers spent a longer period of time in the ’90s with the ancient Siberian Khanty people and did ethnographic research on their lives.

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During their stay with the Khanties, they had the opportunity to record on film when the Khanty father was ear candling his child with an ear candle made by himself. In the above video, the Khanty father makes the ear candle in an authentic way.

The Khanty people treat illnesses with the help of different herbs.
Here, a Khanty father treats the hurting ear of his daughter with a self-made ear candle. The candle is a piece of cloth, impregnated with herbs.
The burning candle helps to remove ear discharge. (Kocsis, Tibor: The Khanty Shaman's legacy, 1998)