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Throughout the ceremony's four days of observances and events, the young woman is guided and advised by her medicine man.
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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
Iron Eyes, a 46-year-old lawyer and Indigenous rights activist, was 9 when a medicine man taught him traditions he’s maintained since, in the wake of the tribe’s annual sun dance ceremony at the park.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
And a Navajo medicine man will teach you about the indigenous population and its traditional practices.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine man
Noun
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Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.—
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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.—
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Researchers believe the structures served as elite burial sites for leaders, priests, or shamans, challenging earlier assumptions that Funnelbeaker societies were strictly egalitarian.—
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By 1901, just seventeen years after contact with the outside world, shamans were cutting their hair, getting baptized, and taking Danish Christian names.—
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In Season Five, it’s also revealed that Will can tap into Vecna via the hive mind, which was teased as early as Season One, when his D&D character, a sorcerer, has similar abilities.—
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In Jujutsu Kaisen, heroic jujutsu sorcerers wage war against demonic creatures called curses and the curse users, who wield jujutsu powers for evil.—
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“Medicine man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine%20man. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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