After she has been magically bathed, he bathes, and this, apparently, is symbolical of his purification in the Otherworld.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Meanwhile I will give my definitions: Poetry is not a department of literature in the sense that the novel or the essay or the drama is, but is an atmosphere which bathes literature whenever ecstasy and emotion are present.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
When the osmotic tension of the solution which bathes the cell is identical with that of the cellular juice, there is no change in the volume of the protoplasm.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc