medicine man

Synonyymisanakirja

medicine man

sateentekijä, šamaani, poppamies, shamaani.

Sitaatit

• Oops! That was not medicine! ''(Hups! Tuo ei ollut lääkettä!)''

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medicine man rimmaa näiden kanssa:

self-made man...

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Englannin sanakirja

medicine man (englanti > suomi)

1. poppamies, šamaani

medicine man englanniksi

1. A Native American shamanistic healer. The term is also used to refer to traditional healers of other indigenous peoples.

2. 1855, (w), (w), XIV,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19/19-h/19-h.htm}

And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,

The Wabenos, the Magicians,

And the Medicine-men, the Medas,

Painted upon bark and deer-skin

Figures for the songs they chanted

3. 1891, w:Willis Fletcher Johnson|W. Fletcher Johnson, Life of (w) and History of the Indian War of 1890-’91, Edgewood Publishing Co., p. 41,^{https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012504018}

Sitting Bull is commonly thought of as a warrior. In point of fact he was not. He was a “medicine man;” which means that he included within himself the three professions of the priesthood, medicine and law.

4. 1958, (w), (w), London: William Heinemann, Chapter 9,

After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.

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