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Definition of Shamans
1. shaman [n] - See also: shaman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamans
Literary usage of Shamans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Siberia by Jonas Jonsson Stadling (1901)
"Two of the natives stopping with us proved to be shamans. ... Seeing that we did
not cross ourselves, and one of the shamans having been cured of fever by ..."
2. A Journey in Southern Siberia: The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths by Jeremiah Curtin (1909)
"But in later times shamans have forgotten or do not follow his command, and pray
sometimes to the spirits of dead shamans, male and female, ..."
3. A Journey in Southern Siberia: The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths by Jeremiah Curtin (1909)
"But in later times shamans have forgotten or do not follow his command, and pray
sometimes to the spirits of dead shamans, male and female, ..."
4. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"Such personages, it might perhaps be supposed, were shamans merely mythical.
We believe them, on the contrary, to "/the6 be historical, ..."
5. Alaska by Edward Henry Harriman, Clinton Hart Merriam (1901)
"152, but the shamans, or mystery men, are not burned. They are buried with
ceremony, on or under the ground, and over them is often erected a platform which ..."
6. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"The shamans—priests of this religion—intoxicate themselves with strong drinks
and dancing, and while in this state perform their incantations, ..."
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