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witch doctor

NOUN
  1. someone who is believed to heal through magical powers

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  • The witch doctor's eyes were well blackened, and his temper none of the best; for he quarrelled with the chief over the possession of Wertz's rifle, and took more than his share of the part-sack of beans. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
  • The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
  • The village witch doctor coated Mr. Holm's burns with a blue-black paste of boiled snake, tree bark and herbs. Looking Back On the Spy Life
  • While performing the ritual, the shaman (witch doctor) dances and enters into a trance.
  • Traditionally, these areas would be the domain of the ‘witch doctor’ or seer, wizard, shaman, wise man/woman, whatever they may be called.
  • The witch doctors were smearing them with paste and shouting spells at them. Times, Sunday Times
  • One clip even features an actor dressed as a witch doctor dancing around a smoking cauldron.
  • After about fifteen minutes of this, the dancing and drumming stopped and a clay calabash, twelve inches across, was filled with water and handed to the witch doctor, together with a small palm leaf.
  • They always saw the witch doctor before they saw me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Liam will spend a day in a traditional Zulu village where he can meet a sangoma (witch doctor) and enjoy a Zulu meal around a campfire.
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