Thesaurus results for SHAMAN

shaman

noun

as in witch

someone who is believed in some cultures to be able to use magic to cure people who are sick, to control future events, etc. went to the shaman for a remedy

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Recent Examples of shaman Keith Richards — who has looked good (relatively speaking) in his recent online posts, and perhaps graduated from collective death watch to eternal shaman — received a mere four votes, three fewer votes than Billy Joel and Phil Collins. —

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026 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 Season 1 draws from Hillerman’s novel Listening Woman about two people who are murdered in front of a blind shaman. —

Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shaman

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Noun

Tituba, one of the first women accused of being a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, was described by nineteenth-century chroniclers as a Black woman.

— Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
In the absence of a good officialdom that can help children, Hjorth offers a good witch who can hold them.

— Elaine Blair, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026