shaman
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Channeling the music like a crazed shaman, Jagger shimmied and sashayed, owning the stage like few lead singers have before or since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
"May all that is bad dissolve into the river and never return," the shaman chanted.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Once, they brought in a shaman to cleanse the house with sage and cedar during a full blood moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Photographer Stuart Dods is one of those willing to take the treatment from a shaman.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
It didn’t take a mighty shaman to know that one-third of nothing was nothing.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
He points to the ayahuasqueros, or shamans of the Amazon Basin, as an example of how humans have engaged in radically different methodologies of discovery for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Peruvian shamans predict global conflict, a White House shakeup in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
“Historically, Korean shamans are mostly women, which was kind of perfect for us. They were women, but they actually wore male garb, so they were dressed looking like men.”
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
Mr Verrett has said he is the latest in six generations of shamans and once said he died for four minutes and 25 seconds.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The Paqo nodded his agreement, and the five shamans moved away so quickly and quietly as to leave me wondering if they had been there at all.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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