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Researchers believe the structures served as elite burial sites for leaders, priests, or shamans, challenging earlier assumptions that Funnelbeaker societies were strictly egalitarian.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Dec. 2025 -
By 1901, just seventeen years after contact with the outside world, shamans were cutting their hair, getting baptized, and taking Danish Christian names.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Candlemass broke new ground for histrionics in metal, but their best songs were about demons, sorcerers, and witches.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2026
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011 - present) With its sorcerers, gods, and talking raccoons, the MCU doesn't usually get too hung up on academic rigor.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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