Origin of The Sauna
The huts were sweating known prehistoric men of temperate and cold regions of the northern hemisphere.
As witnessed by the remaining tribes of Siberia and the Native American tribes of current United States and Canada used many huts perspiration (sweat lodge documents in English) upon arrival of Europeans. They were buildings of branches in which they rolled stones heated in a fire. The patient or the warrior wanting to purify isolated himself in the local index as supernumeraries closed tightly.
Initially the huts were improved sweating in a sauna and then buried with the mastery of woodworking, the huts became houses of wood stacked in the manner of fustes in much of Europe. It is the smoke sauna, which was called ovens in France. In medieval times [when?], The Catholic Church, fighting against nudity and promiscuity, put all his energy to eradicate [How?] Practice of the oven and bathhouses. [Ref. needed] It was also avoided because as the water it was considered responsible for many common diseases at the time as the plague that spread was thought by the pores, which absorbed the miasma, which begat subsequently culture toilet called dry [ref. necessary].
This practice survived in Russia and the Nordic countries, later Christianized, where Orthodox and Lutheran churches were able to collect benefits for hygienic populations. The Russian folk traditions associate “Bannik (Банник) to bath houses: it is a small domestic spirit, some joker, sometimes cruel, that haunts this place called” bania “(бaня).
Sweden (under the name bastu) and Finland raised to the highest degree the art of steam dryer. In the early twentieth century, the Finnish athletes at the Olympics and then the soldiers of the Winter War were made known to the world the sauna and its associated attributes to their exploits.
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