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medicine man

NOUN
  1. a Native American shaman

How To Use medicine man In A Sentence

  • The medical practitioner in primitive society, the medicine man, is primarily priest or shaman.
  • The encounter often leaves us looking at the world a little differently for the presence of the medicine man.
  • The word toady comes from ‘toad-eater’: a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
  • When his neighbours twitted him with being too lazy to plow and sow, of "mooning" over books, and derisively sneered when they spoke of him as the Harvester of the Woods or the Medicine Man, David Langston smiled and went his way. The Harvester
  • The man in the mask as Eliade tells us (The medicine man, the Shaman.) A Mess
  • We reproduced Kamata Keishu's illustration as it appeared in Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome, the book which accompanied the exhibition Peter Campbell discussed.
  • In Bali, her final destination, she planned to devote herself to prayer, studying under a wizened medicine man named Ketut.
  • Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • These actions made a kindly medicine man angry, and he put a curse on them.
  • She could skin the ordinary kahuna lapaau (medicine man) when it came to praying to Lonopuha and Koleamoku; read dreams and visions and signs and omens and indigestions to beat the band; make the practitioners under the medicine god, Maiola, look like thirty cents; pull off a pule hoe incantation that would make them dizzy; and she claimed to a practice of kahuna hoenoho, which is modern spiritism, second to none. SHIN-BONES
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