shamans

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Shamans, like other traditional healers across cultures, often associate the revelation of their gift with life-threatening sickness, and believe they could die if they refuse the call.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023

Shamans and priests guided rituals like bloodletting, which allowed for communication with the ancestors by releasing a sacred essence in the blood called chu’ulel.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Shamans in Ashaninka and other Indigenous cultures deliberately attain such states of consciousness as a means of seeking foresight and wisdom.

From Scientific American • May 23, 2022

Shamans had helped her heal, and her ardent champion Pedro Almodóvar would help her reach new, rapturous audiences in Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2017

By their Shamans and chiefs I was venerated; by the common people I was feared; while all recognized my extraordinary powers.

From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various