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6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for SHAMAN in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Russian) a doctor-priest or medicine man working by magic, esp. a priest of Asian Shamanism
a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing.
priest of shamanism
A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a medicine man among certain Native Americans

Words related to SHAMAN

shamanic15 shamans12

Words that contain SHAMAN

shamans12 shamanic15 shamanism16 shamanist14 shamanisms17 shamanists15 shamanistic18

How to use SHAMAN in a sentence

Terms finally settled, the Shaman seized the knife, shut it, secreted it with a final grunt, and stood up.
The voice of the white man, the call for light, reached the Shaman.
Better had it been if Scundoo, their own shaman, were undisgraced.
Wherefore, my father, the Otter, being old, and Skolka, the shaman, being dead, I shall be both chief and shaman.
For his services the shaman gets a little maize, beans, salt, etc.
Without his shaman the Tarahumare would feel lost, both in this life and after death.
When a shaman is asked to cure a person of any complaint, real or imaginary, his first move is to find the cause of the trouble.
But generally the skill of the shaman is taxed more severely and he resorts to the more direct and powerful methods of magic.
When resting between operations, the shaman places his sucking-tube into a bowl of water in which some herbs are soaking.
Then the shaman asks for an earthen bowl which has never been used before, and in this he places the heart and burns it without adding fat or anything else.

Such a fate is all the more liable to befall them on account of the recognised ability of a shaman to both cure and produce disease.
The power of the sorcerer to do evil is as great as the ability of the good shaman to cure it.
The two assistants of the shaman follow their principal in every act he performs.
As soon as the shaman has seated himself, he takes a round drinking-gourd, and by pressing its rim firmly into the soil and turning the vessel round, makes a circular mark.
Having offered incense to the cross, they return to the shaman.
The dust produced by the rasping of the shaman in the course of the night is carefully gathered up and kept in a buckskin bag as a powerful remedy for future use.
The shaman then opened the basket and asked me to select what I wanted.
He is highly esteemed by all his countrymen, who consider him the greatest hikuli shaman in that part of the Tarahumare country.
All the mourners talk to the departed, the shaman first.
After a while the shaman lifts the bowl up and after carrying it about in three ceremonial circuits throws it into the air.
The Christian Tarahumares believe that the shaman has to watch the dead throughout the year, or the deceased would be carried away by the Devil.
Among the pagans in Pino Gordo I met the finest specimen of the Tarahumare tribe, a shaman, called Juan Ignacio.
The bow being made taut, the shaman beats the string with two sticks, in a short, rhythmical measure of one long and two short beats.
The shaman wore a narrow hair-ribbon, but no flower.
He sings an incantation and smokes tobacco, though not on the dead, while the widow makes yarn from some cotton, which she has first handed to the shaman.
The other thread the shaman holds in his left hand, together with his pipe and plumes.
They stop, while it is still dark, and the shaman steps forward and despatches the deceased.
The shaman sang well, but the dancing lacked animation, and but few took part in it.
He never undertook even a hunting expedition unless he had had a shaman consult his Okee to decide if the day would be a lucky one.
Among the Kagwantans of the Thlinget people he had been given the rank of Shaman, or medicine man.
On this, in his Shaman robes, sat the White Chief of Katleean.

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