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In certain cases, if victims could be made to remember their humanness by a shaman, they could be brought back to their human selves.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025 -
As niche as that plot may sound, its story is rooted in Korean tradition, where many shamans in Korea, who tend to be women, perform various rituals to chase demons away from a household or home.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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Batman has always been skeptical of magic, but nonetheless gets drawn into an investigation that involves Constantine, Etrigan, Zatanna, Deadman, Black Orchid, and Swamp Thing, leading them all into battle with villainous sorcerer Felix Faust.—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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For his part, He-Man has a team that includes Battlecat, Man-at-Arms, the sorcerer Orko, Teela, and, uh… Fisto.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
1 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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But maybe a little bit of voodoo was exactly what the Cubs needed Tuesday against the hottest team in baseball.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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The 1995 case found that a Louisiana school board could not ban a scholarly book on the practice of voodoo and hoodoo if its goal was to prevent students from learning about the two variations of African tribal religion.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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