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Bacalar, Mexico Hosting multi-day ayahuasca retreats in the lagoon-side town of Bacalar, in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is Peruvian-American healer and curator Amalia Moscoso, who brings together medicine men and women, facilitators, and shamans of all backgrounds to create each of her experiences.
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Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2023
Klee’s father, Jones Benally, is a traditional Diné (as the Navajo call themselves) medicine man; his mother, Berta Benally, is an activist and folk musician of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage who grew up in the folk scene of Greenwich Village.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
When Kinsel recently began seeing visions of his late horse Yoyo running toward him, a medicine man held a ceremony to dispel the phantoms.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
Benally, the son of Navajo medicine man, Hoop Dancer and cultural performer Jones Benally and Berta Benally, a folk singer of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage, was born in Black Mesa on the Navajo Nation in 1975.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
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Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2023
Klee’s father, Jones Benally, is a traditional Diné (as the Navajo call themselves) medicine man; his mother, Berta Benally, is an activist and folk musician of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage who grew up in the folk scene of Greenwich Village.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
When Kinsel recently began seeing visions of his late horse Yoyo running toward him, a medicine man held a ceremony to dispel the phantoms.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
Benally, the son of Navajo medicine man, Hoop Dancer and cultural performer Jones Benally and Berta Benally, a folk singer of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage, was born in Black Mesa on the Navajo Nation in 1975.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine man
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While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.—
Eric Andersson,
Peoplemag,
19 Feb. 2024
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On the other chair was Sincere Seven, the 43-year-old master of this ceremony, who calls himself a multidimensional travel agent, spiritual tour guide, medicine man and witch doctor.—
John Carlisle,
Freep.com,
18 Aug. 2022
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Or a gathering of healers and shamans in Catemaco, Veracruz, for La Noche de Brujas (Night of the Witches)?—
Meagan Drillinger,
AFAR Media,
31 Jan. 2025
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Min claimed that the shaman is simply a friend of hers.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2025
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To take that sort of Silver Age feel, that sort of science-fiction approach to it with gadgets, Lex [Luthor] is really a sort of sorcerer in a way.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2024
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Many attacks go unreported, as the belief in witchcraft and the desire to punish sorcerers are widespread.—
Emma Bubola,
New York Times,
24 Nov. 2024
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“Medicine man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine%20man. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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