witch doctor
Example Sentences
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What I remember about “Grey’s” — I was that girl that people would say, “Can you play like a witch doctor on Monday?” or “Can you have this weird disease?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
In Namibia, “for a witch doctor to make a ruling on whether or not you are a witch, you have to pay him a lot of money,” Holtzhausen says.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2023
“It’s an African American witch doctor talking about fictional fantasy and monsters and ghouls,” Ms. Brown said.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022
Zagre and her husband, Ousmane Nikiema, visited a witch doctor after giving birth to both sets of twins.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2021
My mother did not have the one hundred cents to take them to the clinic, and no witch doctor, our last resort, was willing to treat them on credit.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
