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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
293 words

Inspired, ecstatic, and charismatic individuals, male and female, with the power to control spirits, often by incarnating them, and able

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The Oxford Companion to the Body

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Science and technology, Life Sciences
Length:
994 words

Ethnologists since the nineteenth century have sometimes used the terms ‘shaman’, ‘medicine man’, ‘sorceror’, and ‘magician’ interchangeably to designate individuals,

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World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
47 words

Tribal witch doctor or medicine man believed to be in contact with spirits or the supernatural world, and thought to

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The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
26 words

See abaris; aristeas; empedocles; epimenides; Pythagoras (1); Zalmoxis; and cf. E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
Length:
43 words
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 ... More

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