shamanist

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  1. shaman
  2. sorcerer
  3. witch doctor
  4. medicine man
  5. voodoo
  6. magus
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  • The people, fearful, went to the shaman, and despite the initial distrust, more masked spirits appeared, transforming the sadness into joy.
    Arath Zumaya Muñoz, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Playing as characters like a MAGA grandma, a QAnon shaman, or a pink-haired rockstar, participants work their way around the board collecting ballots, aiming to get enough to make it up the golden ladder to join Donald Trump on his helicopter.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of shaman
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  • Merlin: Merlin was a key sorcerer in Arthurian Romance.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Since 2013, the coastal California city of Morro Bay has been the site of witch sightings around Halloween time, as hundreds of people dressed in their finest sorcerer's outfits hop onto stand-up paddle boards for the Witches and Warlocks Paddle.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
  • 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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  • After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Iron Eyes, a 46-year-old lawyer and Indigenous rights activist, was 9 when a medicine man taught him traditions he’s maintained since, in the wake of the tribe’s annual sun dance ceremony at the park.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
Definition of medicine man
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  • In real life, Laveau was a herbalist, midwife, and Voodoo practitioner in New Orleans, and Tituba was an enslaved Native American woman (not a Black voodoo practitioner as she is often wrongfully depicted).
    Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
  • New Orleans, Louisiana Known for its supernatural roots and connection to voodoo, New Orleans takes Halloween celebrations to the next level.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
Definition of voodoo
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  • For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
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