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Definitions of shaman in various dictionaries:
noun - in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds
A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a medium between the visible world and an invisible spirit world and who practices magic or sorcery for purposes of healing, divination, and control over natural events.
adj - a medicine man among certain North American Indians [n -S] : SHAMANIC
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| Magic practicer |
| Tribal V.I.P. |
| Tribal magician |
| Tribal healer |
| Tribal spiritualist |
| Tribal mystic |
| Medicine man |
| Witch doctor |
| Magical priest |
| Priestly magician |
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| Found in some Indian tribes, it's a medicine man with special healing powers |
| Like Native Americans, many Mongolians follow this type of mystic healer whose name means "he who knows" |
| Some Native Americans believe these medicine men have contact with the spirit world |
| Shaman description |
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| Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.A shaman ( SHAH-men) is someone who is regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing. The word "shaman" probably originates from the Tungusic Evenki language of North Asia. According to ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen, "the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha, and "nothing seems to contradict the assumption that the meaning 'shaman' also derives from Proto-Tungusic" and may have roots that extend back in time at least two millennia. The term was introduced to the west after Russian forces conquered the shamanistic Khanate of Kazan in 15 |