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Tracing the history of a Tayal shaman family, the project explores how untold ancestral memories resonate into modern times by combining tribal legend, fantasy and romance.—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
21 Sep. 2025 -
My shaman Neal has an organic medicinal caviar that works wonders.—
Carolina de Armas,
Air Mail,
20 Sep. 2025
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In need of a new assistant after his last one died under mysterious circumstances, Giacomo reluctantly becomes the sorcerer’s apprentice.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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The sorcerers also reveal that Bruce Banner has become Infinity Hulk, a living vessel for the Infinity Stones.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 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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Costner cast Greene as real-life Lakota Sioux medicine man Kicking Bird in the film, a epic Western adapted from Michael Blake’s novel.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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To today's ear, the elixirs, potions and tonics sold at Haag sound like a traveling medicine man’s inventory: Swamp root, Danderine, Sloan’s Liniment, Catarrh Jelly, Wine of Cardue.—
Indianapolis Star,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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The problem is that Tipping — using lots of quick cuts, booming music cues, flashing X-rays of injuries and occult-style voodoo horror tropes — fails to run up any numbers on the scoreboard.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 Sep. 2025
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And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug.—
Stephanie Stone,
Scientific American,
23 July 2022
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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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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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