helpers danced around the circle fanning sprinkles of water over the bowed heads of the spectators and then other helpers came around as they did throughout the four days , with smudge pots and waved the sage and juniper smoke over and around the bodies of the people with brushes made of sage tied with red yarn and the people bent toward the fragrant , purifying smoke and waved it towards them with their own sage brushes and joe followed their actions and imitated their reverence without questioning it .