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Even shamans who use traditional medicinal plants to treat illnesses direct HIV-positive patients his way.—
Adam Williams,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Mar. 2025 -
Others whispered that she had been wounded in a battle with an Indonesian shaman and disappeared into the mountains.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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There is the love of Irish and Mexican dance traditions, love challenged by evil sorcerers and family dynamics and the passionate love that ends in tragedy.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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Players adopt alter egos, from warriors to sorcerers, who traverse worlds of mysticism and monsters.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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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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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
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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
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This contract screams negative EV once the goalie voodoo roulette wheel works against us in the next year or so.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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By all metrics, Voodoo Macbeth was a smash, as critics fawned over the performances, the eye-popping costuming (above) and the voodoo drumming.—
Brandon Tensley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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