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Definition of Medicine man
1. Noun. A Native American shaman.
Definition of Medicine man
1. Noun. A Native American shamanistic healer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicine Man
Literary usage of Medicine man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"An old man just back from a far country tells of a medicine-man there who "savvy too
... l They beg the old man to go and find the medicine-man and bring a ..."
2. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"THE RELATION OF THE MEDICINE-MAN TO THE ORIGIN OF THE PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS
In the last volume of his Synthetic Philosophy (Principles of Sociology, Vol. ..."
3. The Life and Adventures of a Quaker Among the Indians by Thomas Chester Battey (1903)
"THE COMANCHE medicine man. — DEPREDATION ON AGENCY STOCK. ... This young medicine
man makes bold pretensions He claims that he has raised the dead to life. ..."
4. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"One day the chief and the medicine-man began to quarrel. ... The medicine-man
said: " If I should speak ill of you, and should say, * Let a stick or some ..."
5. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"One day the chief and the medicine-man began to quarrel. ... The medicine-man
said : " If I should speak ill of you, and should say, ' Let a stick or some ..."
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