"need-fire" meaning in English

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          "text": "In Silesia, also, need-fires were often employed for the purpose of curing a murrain or preventing its spread.",
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          "text": "Fire - divided into need-fire (kindled by friction - discussed under 'Waluburg's Night') and 'struck fire' (sparked by flint and steel - discussion under Thonar).",
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          "ref": "1998, Darien Hamilton, “Kindling in the Yuletide”, in Heathen Journal, volume 2, number 3",
          "text": "I built up the kindling in various stages in the base of the stove as I prepared to make my need-fire.",
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          "ref": "2003, Brian Froud, Ari Berk, The Runes of Elfland, page 51",
          "text": "When great pestilence is upon the land, old folklore tells of using a bow drill to make the need-fire, which is then used to cure cattle of their illness.",
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        "(paganism) A ritual fire created by friction."
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