shamans

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Shamans, like other traditional healers across cultures, often associate the revelation of their gift with life-threatening sickness, and believe they could die if they refuse the call.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023

Shamans and priests guided rituals like bloodletting, which allowed for communication with the ancestors by releasing a sacred essence in the blood called chu’ulel.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Shamans had helped her heal, and her ardent champion Pedro Almodóvar would help her reach new, rapturous audiences in Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2017

But she runs into trouble in the Pavilion of Shamans, which has as its centerpiece a large open-weave, tentlike enclosure by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto.

From New York Times • May 22, 2017

These Shamans and cult societies have a great variety of functions to perform.

From Canyons of the Colorado by Powell, John Wesley