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The agency also arranged spiritual support from an allied shaman, allowing the women to feel safe bringing new life into the world after decades of fear and loss.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026 -
The book details the life and otherworldly visions of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota healer and shaman who bore witness to the horrors of white settler colonialism firsthand, including at the battles of Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890).—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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The land of sorcerers, dragons and savagery played out across eight gripping series, drawing millions of viewers into the fictional worlds of Westeros, Essos, and beyond.—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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The women in the corps are swans because of a spell cast on them by a sorcerer named von Rothbart.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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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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Camila’s kidnapping will tie into the true story of Geronimo, the famed Apache warrior and medicine man.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors said the former actor weaponized his reputation as a Lakota medicine man, exploiting cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs to prey on Indigenous women and girls.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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And in one of Fennell’s wildest edits, pure-hearted girl next door Isabella Linton (Alison Oliver) becomes a scary-horny savant à la Emma Stone in Poor Things, with a fabulous voodoo dollhouse and a questionably consensual taste for S&M.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
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The polygraph is voodoo science.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.—
Sam Kiley,
CNN,
30 June 2022
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But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
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Who to face this strange, ancient magic but the last of the Grim Lords, the sleeping necromancer Kaiataris?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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The islands will also include the opportunity to battle D&D characters such as Klauth, the ancient red dragon and necromancer Valindra Shadowmantle.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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