How To Use Medicine man In A Sentence
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It had been an extended ordeal of vomit and hallucination, a long night spent surfing alternating waves of horror and ecstasy-and in the shaky morning when End of Time had finally showed himself, pyramid head and all, Smithe (less overwhelmed by the sight of that capitate curiosity than he might normally have been) found himself somehow disinclined, even unable, to interrogate the medicine man along the lines that he had so carefully prepared.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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The Midē´, in the true sense of the word, is a Shaman, though he has by various authors been termed powwow, medicine man, priest, seer, prophet, etc.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300
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The medicine man was always asking me why I worked with runes and other belief systems.
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On the Reservation, being a medicine man meant literally that these days.
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The Oglala medicine man Black Elk once said that truth comes in two pure forms: through tears and through laughter.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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(Soundbite of song, "Herculean") Mr. ALBARN: (Singing) And the medicine man is here 24-7.
Albarn's The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
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Why does he care about ... dayflies?" the medicine man wondered.
The Boat of a Million Years
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The healers in this study were an assorted group: psychics, many trained in bioenergetic healing, a Buddhist, a rabbi, a shaman, Native American medicine man, and a Christian.
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When they return to their tribes they have to doff European clothes, as, if they didn't, the medicine man would probably attribute the first misfortune that befell to his violation of the customs of his ancestors, which are more honored in the breech cloth than in the observance of pantaloons and paper collars, and a "settling" dose of poison would remove the progressionist.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
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When you think of the term shaman or medicine man it might conjure up images of African witchdoctors.
ScreenTalk
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The medical practitioner in primitive society, the medicine man, is primarily priest or shaman.
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She could skin the ordinary kahuna lapaau (medicine man) when it came to praying to Lonopuha and Koleamoku; read dreams and visions and signs and omens and indigestions to beat the band; make the practitioners under the medicine god, Maiola, look like thirty cents; pull off a pule hoe incantation that would make them dizzy; and she claimed to a practice of kahuna hoenoho, which is modern spiritism, second to none.
SHIN-BONES
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These actions made a kindly medicine man angry, and he put a curse on them.
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Anthropologist Peter Freuchen lived among the Eskimos for years and observed the angakok or local medicine man go into trances.1 Freuchen watched Eskimo children who played games choking each other until they lost consciousness.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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In Bali, her final destination, she planned to devote herself to prayer, studying under a wizened medicine man named Ketut.
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We reproduced Kamata Keishu's illustration as it appeared in Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome, the book which accompanied the exhibition Peter Campbell discussed.
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The man in the mask as Eliade tells us (The medicine man, the Shaman.)
A Mess
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When his neighbours twitted him with being too lazy to plow and sow, of "mooning" over books, and derisively sneered when they spoke of him as the Harvester of the Woods or the Medicine Man, David Langston smiled and went his way.
The Harvester
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The word toady comes from ‘toad-eater’: a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
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The encounter often leaves us looking at the world a little differently for the presence of the medicine man.
