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witch doctor
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witch doctor: see medicine man medicine man, among Native Americans and other traditional peoples as far back as Paleolithic times, a person believed to possess supernatural healing powers. Like the shaman the medicine man was a specialist in spiritual healing.
..... Click the link for more information. ; shaman shaman (shä`mən, shā`–, shă`–)
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They are a motley crew to be sure: prostitutes and farmers, politicians and widows, witch doctors and missionaries, all fighting a common enemy with whatever tools they have at their disposal, and a laughably inadequate armoury it is.
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