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Prior to collecting, a local shaman conducts a ceremony to honor and respect the bees.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025 -
The Scythians, ancient shamans of Central Asia, burned cannabis as a ceremonial incense.—
Matt Rozo,
Mercury News,
20 May 2025
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Gunn has repeatedly described the character as a sorcerer of science, capable of engineering the most fantastical gadgets and technology to achieve his goals...which leads us to the figures in his orbit, specifically the Engineer.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
10 June 2025
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Audiences will witness the events that fractured the bond between Gojo, often considered the most powerful sorcerer in the series, and Geto, who would later become a formidable antagonist.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.—
Eric Andersson,
Peoplemag,
19 Feb. 2024
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Throughout the ceremony's four days of observances and events, the young woman is guided and advised by her medicine man.—
Alejandra Rubio,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
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After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.—
Trilce Estrada Olvera,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Aug. 2024
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On bringing locals back to Bourbon Street: New Orleans is known for obviously a lot of its spiritual energy, the voodoo, the occult and all this stuff.—
Elazar Sontag,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 May 2025
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After Mosey was accused of rape, Bruny urged him to partake in a Haitian rum-bath ritual; when Mosey was acquitted in March 2023, Bruny told him the voodoo gods had taken a hand in the verdict.—
Amy Kaufman,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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While the snail that had given rise to Ziconotide, Conus magus, was easy to collect in shallow water, Ramiro had her sights set on a lineage of cone snails that preferred deeper, darker depths.—
Gabe Allen,
Discover Magazine,
14 Apr. 2022
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But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2022
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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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