Shamans is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHAMANS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SHAMAN, (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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a medicine man among certain Native Americans

Words related to SHAMANS

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How to use SHAMANS in a sentence

• Shamans of the highest virtue from all quarters, and students, inquirers wishing to find out truth and the grounds of it, all resort to these monasteries.
• And of all shamans, Klok-No-Ton, who dwelt in the next village, was the most terrible.
• Beyond this there were only shamans for certain purposes of magic.
• He is old and has only one eye, and the shamans have seen him often.
• He would like very much to go to heaven, and the shamans have to work hard to keep him from doing so.
• Large serpents, which only the shamans can see, are thought to live in the rivers.
• The demand for shamans is therefore great, but the supply is quite equal to it.
• Therefore the best parts of the meat from the animal killed for the feast is given to the shamans, and they generally get all the tesvino they can hold.
• In winter time, when numerous feasts are being held, the shamans are nearly all the time under the influence of their native stimulants.
• It is always incumbent on the shamans to be peaceful, and they never fight at the feasts.
• The singing shamans invariably have a primitive musical instrument, the rattle, with which they beat time to their singing and dancing.
• When curing, the shamans may sometimes use rational means.
• The shamans also undertake to cure the sun and the moon, because these, too, are often ill and have to be righted.
• The shamans stand in the middle, and the people around them, and all are unanimous in their prayer that they may see the moon.
• Each shaman takes three spoonfuls of medicine, the rest of which is thrown on the cross, and the shamans watch all night.
• It enables him to see Tata Dios himself, to talk to him, to travel through space at will, for the shamans are as bright as the sun.
• Women shamans, too, may turn bad and become witches.
• As we have seen, the medical education of the shamans is extremely limited.
• After this formal opening the men take their places in line to the right of the shamans, and the women to the left.
• The women follow the men after the latter have gone several yards ahead, skipping in the same way as the shamans, though less pronounced.
• In the wet season, when the rabbits are about, the shamans sing of the rabbit.
• It sees even better than the shamans, and it watches that nothing bad is put into the food.
• Only the shamans, however, can see them come, to cure the hearts of the people and to clean their souls.
• A lively discussion arose between the shamans, and I was finally told that I might sit with them, as it was known that I had some of the sacred plants in my possession.
• When a man dies in spite of all efforts of the shamans to save his life, the people say that those who have gone before have called him or carried him off.
• Only shamans can travel at night, although sometimes even they have to fight with the dead, who come running out of the caves on all fours.
• Sometimes, if the dead person has not complied in life with the customary requirements in regard to feasts and sacrifices, the shamans have a hard time in lifting him to heaven.
• Sometimes the head falls back, and the shamans have to call for more tesvino to gain strength to lift him up again.
• The gathering at the medicine lodge begins at dusk, three shamans being present.
• The officers are elected every year, and meet in sessions almost every day, to settle the affairs of the people, and to inflict punishment even on the shamans when necessary.
• My shaman friend in San Francisco complained to me that the other shamans did not know the words of the songs well enough.
• The shamans and priests had advised the werowance thus.
• Our wise women and our shamans have secrets and wonders thou knowest not of.
• Catanaugh was a member of the secret society of Mediwiwin and he was one who had great faith in medicine men and shamans.
• And the shamans, sure always of an audience in Catanaugh, made much of him, and in many ways without his knowing it, used him as a tool.
• Of course, it was wise for the shamans to make this trial, but he wished it had been possible for one of them to have taken his place.
• The shamans had been determined to find out what kind of an Okee protected the white men, and it was only in this spot they could do so.

Similar words containing SHAMAN without suffix s

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