witch doctor

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Recent Examples of witch doctor 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 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 On the other chair was Sincere Seven, the 43-year-old master of this ceremony, who calls himself a multidimensional travel agent, spiritual tour guide, medicine man and witch doctor. John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022 What, did Orlando City send a staffer to Sacramento’s practice or a witch doctor? Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022 But a witch doctor told them their girls, Victorine and Victoria Nikiema, needed to beg for money on the side of the road or risk being killed by a family member’s spirit. Sam Mednick, ajc, 26 Dec. 2021 Zagre and her husband, Ousmane Nikiema, visited a witch doctor after giving birth to both sets of twins. Sam Mednick, ajc, 26 Dec. 2021 They are driven by dream requests and witch doctor instructions, mothers told The Associated Press. Sam Mednick, ajc, 26 Dec. 2021 Fine, the witch doctor (played by Keener) acknowledges. Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for witch doctor
Noun
  • Throughout the ceremony's four days of observances and events, the young woman is guided and advised by her medicine man.
    Alejandra Rubio, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025
  • After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Only these culinary shamans really knew how to make this stuff.
    Mike Curato June 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • Bent on evangelizing the Indigenous population in a remote Ecuadorian village, Candice (Sara Canning), a white American woman, alongside her husband and teenage son, must confront endemic beliefs and the man who holds the knowledge about them: the shaman.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • With his sword, superhuman strength, and loyal friends, He-Man defends Eternia and the secrets of Castle Grayskull from the forces of the evil sorcerer Skeletor.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 June 2025
  • In a far-off city, all our heroes teamed up to defeat an invading empire and kill the evil immortal sorcerer guiding their invasion, all while exorcising their own various demons or taking on some new ones.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025

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