| In addition, shamans and soothsayers deal with the supernatural and the spirit world. |
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| I think the world needs the witches, the shamans, the Wiccans, the Druids and the ritual magicians. |
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| The high-frequency sounds of the maraca have been used by American Indian shamans for healing and by Tibetan lamas to uplift the soul. |
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| Jung's experience was similar to that undergone by shamans and religious mystics, as well as some artists, writers, and philosophers. |
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| Among the Sauk, shamans were thought to be capable of transforming themselves into bears and other animals to destroy their enemies. |
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| There are several clear depictions of shamans in a therianthropic form, with hooves clearly visible. |
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| The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams. |
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| I've seen the mandalas and lights and patterns of delirium and drug trips, watched the shamans in their trances during field research. |
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| Even Amazonian shamans, when in trance, travel to spirit governments to gain the power to cure. |
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| In many rural communities, men and women function equally as shamans and healers. |
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| It is said among shamans that each is paired with his or her perfect spirit guide. |
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| Evil shamans involve spirits and have what we would call supernatural powers. |
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| Here we have another frontier to explore with shamans, channels, mediums, and sundry sensitives. |
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| A visit to the northern Huaringas area will enable travelers to meet curanderos, or shamans, who hold specialized healing ceremonies. |
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| The shamans believe this was caused by a wayward spirit who reneged on their deal. |
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| Other religious practitioners include spirit mediums and shamans, most of whom are women. |
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| Pagan followers can go by the title of witches, Druids, heathens or shamans, and some adhere to the tradition of Wicca. |
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| The Pagan Federation, an umbrella group which represents Druids, shamans, witches and high priestesses, is now receiving up to 1000 calls a week. |
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| Mayan shamans in the Yucatan, who go into caves to have visions, see caves as portals or doors that lead somewhere else. |
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| Only a few shamans in the region were known to practice gris-gris. |
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| She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans. |
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| Meanwhile, his friend Noel Fielding, who can get surreal without the help of wheat beer, won't stop wittering about shamans and mermen and people made of biscuits. |
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| As dawned crept over the eastern hills, Taita Morales and the other shamans called us inside. |
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| Last season gave us witches, disembodied spirits, shifters, shamans, and faeries, all vying for control of the story. |
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| She had had a couple of narratives about Sami shamans, noaidies, so she was asked if it was a fact that some people had the ability to inflict evil on others. |
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| Many people consult shamans and other religious practitioners. |
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| For millennia, shamans and witch doctors, the therapists of indigenous and preindustrial cultures, made no distinction between physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. |
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| Rituals of traditional belief systems mark life-cycle events or involve propitiation for particular occasions and are led by shamans, spirit mediums, or prayer masters. |
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| Religious experts vary from formally installed priests and teachers representing the institutionalized religions to self-ordained shamans, healers, and sorcerers. |
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| In the past, the Kyrgyz people relied on shamans as healers. |
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| Going down to the underworld alive was something Thracian shamans just did, as natural as singing along the forest paths. |
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| Kublai tried every medical treatment available, from Korean shamans to Vietnamese doctors, and remedies and medicines, but to no avail. |
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| Women shamans played an important role in this tradition, which was particularly strong in the southern state of Chu. |
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| Karosses are closely associated with shamans in the rock paintings across the region that depict the partial transformation of men into antelope. |
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| According to Pratt and Smith, shamans don't just drink ayahuasca, do ceremony in workshops, and heal individual people one at a time. |
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| Among these varied groups of farmers and menials, there are a chosen few set aside as ambassadors to spiritdom, or shamans, known as bhagats. |
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| Mazatec shamans have a long and continuous tradition of religious use of Salvia divinorum a psychoactive plant. |
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| A priesthood is a body of priests, shamans, or oracles who have special religious authority or function. |
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| Butler came to drink this plant medicine with shamans in Peru after being introduced to it by Banhart. |
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| Some Norwegian and Sami celebrities are reported to visit shamans for guidance. |
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| The earliest intermediaries between humans and the supernatural realm were shamans. |
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| Healing rites performed by shamans frequently identify social disorder as the cause, and make the restoration of social relationships the cure. |
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| Throwing up is an integral part of the ceremony, and shamans encourage it. |
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| They were led by shamans, who systematised tribal beliefs and cults. |
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| During the Soviet era, most or all of the shamans died without successors. |
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| One ritual involved seven princes with milk offerings who ascended the stairs with 20 female shamans and offered prayers, sprinkling the statues with the sacred milk. |
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| They are down-to-earth medicine women, shamans, and curanderos. |
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