shamanist

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Noun
  • Costa Rica has the jungle shaman who’ll realign your spleen and sell you ayahuasca in a biodegradable pouch.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Trump’s followers may communicate through memes and message boards, but their faith belongs to a much older mythology: the eternal face-off between shaman and witch, prophet and cabal.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The previous movie, released in 2021, showed how the Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) and his forces attempted to wipe out Earth's champions before the big Mortal Kombat tournament between fighters from different realms.
    EW.com, EW.com, 17 July 2025
  • Ainsworth will play Link, the young hero who battles the forces of evil from the dark sorcerer Ganon to rescue Princess Zelda and protect the magical kingdom of Hyrule.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The dance began a century ago when an Ojibwe medicine man’s granddaughter fell sick.
    Austin American Statesman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • To today's ear, the elixirs, potions and tonics sold at Haag sound like a traveling medicine man’s inventory: Swamp root, Danderine, Sloan’s Liniment, Catarrh Jelly, Wine of Cardue.
    Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • On Friday and Saturday evenings, the dinner menu features standout dishes like shrimp and grits and the flavorful voodoo pasta, combining shrimp, chicken, and andouille sausage in a spicy, creamy sauce.
    Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
  • Turns out the island's rotting dead are rising from the grave—the result of a voodoo curse.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • While the snail that had given rise to Ziconotide, Conus magus, was easy to collect in shallow water, Ramiro had her sights set on a lineage of cone snails that preferred deeper, darker depths.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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