noun
definition
A traditional (prescientific) faith healer.
definition
A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds.
Examples of shaman in a Sentence
We were forced to visit another powerful shaman in the town.
The shaman journeys or passes his/her hands over the client's body to detect intrusions.
The shaman's office is held to be hereditary and his chief assistants are ancestral spirits.
Many current interpretations emphasize the healing side of shamanism, but this is only one aspect of the shaman's work.
You will always be under the guidance and tutelage of the shaman.
Finally, the shaman offered them the option of wearing a blindfold, least they see something they would rather not.
The shaman's domain includes dalliances, alliances, exchanges and battles with the spirits of the air, ocean, soil and cosmos.
The shaman's personal soul quits his body in a trance to hold intercourse with spirits.
The State shaman did not accompany the procession downstream, leaving the escort of the spirit rafts with their grisly freight to his assistant.
You'll obviously know my whole schtick about the shaman being the doorway or interface between different worlds.
The specialist has at times been called a shaman, or a witch doctor, or a doctor or a surgeon.
The gives the shaman the power to control disease in the future.
Shaman women dedicated to Freya still carried the magical staff.
Many current interpretations emphasize the healing side of shamanism, but this is only one aspect of the shaman 's work.
From this I believe we may see further evidence of the assumption of animal form by the shaman of the tribe.
It is a role-playing/adventure game that offers a variety of characters and classes to play- Iskar Shaman, Vah Shir Berserker, Barbarian Warrior, Wood Elf Ranger, High Elf Cleric, Erudite Wizard, and the Dark Elf Shadow Knight.
Everyone should go to a temple, or see a shaman at least once a year for cleansing of spirits.
It involves the shaman directly and actively in transcendent realities or lower realms of being.
Here, the African artist Chief Oloruntoba assumes a higher role than his western counterpart; that of medicine man and tribal shaman.
Is this because there is no white shaman among these people?
To become a good master shaman one should commit to a two years plant diet.
He decides to use this opportunity to search for a mysterious woman shaman he had been told about by his mentor, Socrates.
Like his tribespeople, the shaman medicine man wasnât able to see past the filters of his cultural conditioning.
So time has changed the Malay brother of the Siberian shaman into a humble relative of the Sufi mystic.
For instance, the Iksar Shaman has regenerative powers, but his attacks are only spiritual in nature.
The Shaman, who is a magic user, is a weak fighter in the beginning of the game, but later becomes very powerful with the devastating spells he can cast.
So too the autohypnotic trance of the magician or shaman is regarded as due to his visit to distant regions or the nether world, of which he brings back an account.
Desperate to help her mother and herself, Tara was duped into paying a con woman posing as the shaman Miss Jeanette.
They are chiefly hunters, passionately loving their taiga, or wild forests, and have maintained their Shaman religion and tribal organization into suoks.
All the world over it is held that such people can assume the form of animals; sometimes the power of the shaman is held to depend on his being able to summon his familiar; among the Ostiaks the shaman's coat was covered with representations of birds and beasts; two bear's claws were on his hands; his wand was covered with mouse-skin; when he wished to divine he beat his drum till a black bird appeared and perched on his hut; then the shaman swooned, the bird vanished, and the divination could begin.