The shaman and his employer fast until after the ceremony.
The shaman stands facing the approaching storm with one hand stretched out toward it.
The shaman and his employer then retire to a lonely spot in the mountains, in the vicinity of a small stream, and begin a new series of conjurations with the beads.
Should the first trial, which takes place at daybreak, prove unsuccessful, the shaman and his client fast until just before sunset.
When the shaman wishes to destroy the life of another, either for his own purposes or for hire, he conceals himself near the trail along which the victim is likely to pass.
In searching for his medicinal plants the shaman goes provided with a number of white and red beads, and approaches the plant from a certain direction, going round it from right to left one or four times, reciting certain prayers the while.
The shaman is laboring under strong, though suppressed, emotion.
This myth explains also why birds, and no quadrupeds, are invoked by the shaman to the aid of his friends.
No evil results seem to follow its transfer from the shaman to a third party.
While the bather is in the water the shaman is going through with his part of the performance on the bank and draws omens from the motion of the beads between his thumb and finger, or of the fishes in the water.
On this, in his Shaman robes, sat the White Chief of Katleean.
In the crude light and shade his barbaric gorgeousness became doubly sinister, as he pushed the strange shaman headdress farther back on his dark head.
Below this emblem of the Shaman spirit, the Unseeable, his eyes, narrow, pale and dangerous sent straight into those of Ellen a look that might have come down through the red pages of history.
When a shaman discovers the tupilak he advises the people, who assemble, and prepare to free it of its burden.
The shaman is able to see, by the help of his guardian spirit, these attachments, and is able to free the soul from them.
By the merest chance I drew from a heap of rubbish in the corner of a lodge a Shaman rattle, unquestionably genuine.
This Shaman rattle is a quaintly carved rattle-box, such as is used by sorcerers or medicine-men in propitiation of the evil spirit at the bedside of the dying.
Colonel Yule has collected and set forth with such precision, on theShaman household gods.
A practice resembling this is mentioned by Pallas as existing among the Buddhist Kalmaks, a relic of their old Shaman superstitions, which the Lamas profess to decry, but sometimes take part in.
At that time the king of Corea was also in Peking, and the sorcerers and Shaman women were admitted during an audience the King had of the Khan.
Three great birds, that some shaman had doubtless created with powerful medicine, so large that they almost touched the heavens, were skimming the waves, their white wings blown forward.
The shaman made no answer, but bent down from his great height and looked carefully at the wound, then he took the end of the stretcher from Pocahontas, saying: "I will bear her to my prayer lodge here nearby.
He never undertook even a hunting expedition unless he had had a shaman consult his Okee to decide if the day would be a lucky one.
In various parts of the continent and among diverse tribes the shaman exercises functions as "healer, sorcerer, seer, priest and educator.
The priestly character of the shaman appears among the Plains tribes in connexion with the custody of the "sacred bundles" and the keeping of the ceremonial myths, &c.
When fever prostrates one of the tribe the Shaman gathers the actors about the stricken man, and with weird dancing, wild ululation, and ecstatic exhortation the evil spirit is driven from the body.
The lore of this Shaman is composed of mythic tales of ancient animals.
The shaman induces him to take up lodgings in this effigy, and the success of his persuasion is apparent when the invalid recovers.
The shaman after practicing his art announced that the spirit commanded the sable skin to be worn by the doctor himself.
Some of the Russians have imbibed native superstitions, and there is a story of a priest who applied to a shaman to practice his arts and ward off evil in a journey he was about to make.
At the head of the river rises a mass of rock known asShaman Kamen (spirit's rock).
If the patient dies the shaman declares that the spirit was one over which he had no control, but he does not hesitate to take pay for his services.
A good shaman who has performed wonderful cures receives after death a magnificent tomb to his memory.
While practicing his profession the shaman contorts his body and dances like one insane, and howls worse than a dozen Kamchadale dogs.
A Russian traveler who witnessed one of these exorcisms said that the shaman howled so fearfully that two Chinese merchants who were present out of curiosity fled in very terror.
The shaman combines the double function of priest and doctor, ministering to the physical and spiritual being at the same time.
When a man is taken sick he is supposed to be attacked by an evil spirit and the shaman is called to practice exorcism.
But generally the skill of the shaman is taxed more severely and he resorts to the more direct and powerful methods of magic.
On my way back to civilisation, I spent some time at Guajochic, near which place the great hikuli expert, Shaman Rubio, lives.
There it is the custom of the shaman to draw underneath his resonator-gourd a mystical human figure in the sand, and to place the hikuli in its centre.
The old man was a strong personality, powerfully built, and a shamanof great reputation, who in his entire bearing showed his determination to keep the dead at bay.
She gives the shaman a wad of white cotton, which he places on the god's eye.
For his services the shamangets a little maize, beans, salt, etc.
The shaman sang well, but the dancing lacked animation, and but few took part in it.
A person suspected of having been bewitched is told to hold his mouth open to the sun, that the shaman may see whether the evil entered the body through this aperture.
When a shaman is asked to cure a person of any complaint, real or imaginary, his first move is to find the cause of the trouble.
The two assistants of the shaman follow their principal in every act he performs.
The other thread the shaman holds in his left hand, together with his pipe and plumes.
They asked the shaman who was with them whether the creature was a bear or something else, and he replied, "Let the dogs on and see.
In addition to sending her son to peyote meetings, she had taken her granddaughter to the shaman and is a regular attendant at the church sewing school.
The so-called antelope shaman and rabbit boss fall into this category rather than that of doctor.
However, with the introduction of the peyote cult, which among the Washo is concerned with curing, the shaman was superseded.
Nonetheless she has faith in the power of this modern shaman and in the cures reported for the old-time shamans.
Ideally the eagle was tied up until the shaman removed three tail feathers.
Although there appears to have been no special requirement that a shaman have an assistant, it was not uncommon for a younger man to help out.
In fact, however, it would appear that the process of becoming a shaman was far more a conscious and voluntary act on the part of an individual than would be supposed from the foregoing story.
The powerful eagle feather is reserved for the use of road chiefs just as it was the special symbol of the shaman or powerful warrior.
Rupert, the psychologically oriented shaman comments, "Hell, them northern Washo didn't come down to Double Springs very much.
Therefore a man who could deal with this agent, just like a shaman who could eat the poison parsnip with impunity, was a man to be listened to and followed.
The shaman stepped back; his hand waved toward the woodsman.
But the Picts still shrank back against the huts, and the shaman still stood facing the gate that was like a black opening to let in the night.
They rushed toward the man on the stake, but the shamanbeat them back.
The shaman was talking now, a harsh, guttural intonation that yet carried the hiss of a cobra.
The shaman cried out shrilly, and with an ear-shattering roar the monster sprang.
Balthus experienced the illusion that the Pict was towering above him, staring contemptuously down from a great height, though he knew the shaman was not as tall as himself.
They fluttered and rustled evilly as the shaman leaped and cavorted.
The curingshaman sang and danced for two nights while her spirit searched for the spirit of the patient.
When a person had a fainting spell, the spirit departed from the body and a shaman had to be called in order to get the patient's spirit back.
Whatever role Menlik had played in the present before he had been reconditioned into a shaman of the Horde, he had had the ability of an artist, for with a minimum of lines he created a figure in that sketch.
Travis stared beyond the Tatar shaman to the men about the fire.
Had the shaman retreated so far along the road to his past that he now believed in his own supernatural powers?
The shaman might be content to sleep the afternoon away, but after he had eaten, Hulagur wandered up and down the valley, making a lengthy business of rubbing down their horses with twists of last season's grass.
When the shamanspoke again his words were a half whisper.
After a last resounding roll on the drum, the shaman thrust the sticks into his girdle and came down to the fire at the center of the camp.
He might have been alienating the shamanby such a sharp reply, but Travis thought he judged the temper of these people.
The shaman asked the question the Apache had hoped to hear.
But the shaman gave a grunt of what they took as assent and slipped over the edge of the lookout point.
She supplied the information the shaman would not openly ask for.
But the shaman came to the dying smudge fire to meet the Apaches.
The shaman half turned, opening his eyes with the languid effort of a sleepy cat.
After the shaman looked down he stooped, picked up a small stone, and flung it at the motionless Red.
And it was not until he sat back, his hunger appeased, that the shaman dropped down beside him.
The shamanemptied the horn and, with that, set aside ceremony.
But theshaman urged his mount into a walking pace toward the Apache until they stood only a few feet from each other--the warrior of the steppes and the Horde facing the warrior of the desert and the People.
For example, if the astral counterpart of a horse or a canoe be seen in ghost-land, unless they are rescued from thence by the shaman they are doomed.
The soul of the shaman with a strong guardian spirit was placed first, the next in degree last, and that of the priest with the weakest guardian spirit in the middle.
It is one of the tenets of animism that the animistic spirit must, as spiritualists would say, 'materialize' in some natural object, and the wandering spirit may thus be enticed by the sorcery of the shaman into the fetish object.
Others believe that the moon is obscured at night by a shaman taking the form of a bird, and covering its disk with his wings.
He will never find it,' she said, 'but he will be the only Shaman in the village and will have all the gifts.
Will you let this false Shaman impose on you, O Children of the Sun, with a common pebble?
They remembered how our Shaman had gone apart to pray to her own gods and they thought the Spirit of the Corn might have been offended.
She was a Shaman in her heart and as a Shamanshe appeared to them.
They ran for Waba-mooin, and when I saw him coming in all his Shaman's finery, I put on the old Medicine Man's shirt and his pipe and went out to smoke with him as one Shaman with another.
My father was Shaman before him, a much greater Shaman than Waba-mooin will ever be.
Any one could be a Shaman who thought himself equal to it and could persuade people to believe in him.
But, as the Shaman kept on prodding the Cacique, as hunters stir up a bear before killing him, they began to see that there was something more coming, and they stood still, packed solidly in the square to listen.
A Shaman was not a priest, nor was he elected to office, and in some tribes he did not even go to war, but stayed at home to protect the women and children.
To a dog or a child,' she said, 'one speaks the first word on the lips, but before a great Shamanone considers carefully.
The people took up the incident and whispered it from mouth to mouth to prove that the strange Shaman was a great prophet.
But the chief business of the Shaman was to keep man reconciled with the spirit world, to persuade it to be on his side, or to prevent the spirits from doing him harm.
She put on the thought of a Shaman as a man puts on the thought of a deer or a buffalo when he goes to look for them.
The shaman is frequently seen correcting the workmen and making them erase and revise their work.
In other prayers, closely resembling this in form, the shaman adds: “Beautify all that is above me.
Next all return to the lodge, which has been allowed to cool; the shaman spits on each some medicine which has been mixed with hoar-frost and is supposed to cool.
The night the shaman arrived he rehearsed some of these prayers with the woman, at her own hogán, to make her familiar with them before she repeated them, in the medicine lodge.
In taking the dust from the picture, however, the shaman applied his hands only to the bases of the arrows.
The shaman moistened his hands with saliva and pressed them to the feet of all the gods.
Many contain archaic expressions, for which the shaman can assign a meaning, but whose etymology cannot now be learned; and some embody obsolete words whose meaning is lost even to the priesthood.
Seeing this, the shaman gave it as his opinion that the purification already made was not sufficient, and that it would be well to have a great dance over him.
They were still hot from the fire, and the shaman broke them into fragments and passed the pieces around.
The prayer being finished, she arose, put some of the medicine into her mouth, some on her head, and took her seat in the south, while the shaman went on with the preparation of the sacrifices.
It is sung by the shaman at the eastern gate, while the young men are building the corral.
Some curious facts connected with the Shaman superstition are given by Mr. Swan in the "Scottish Congregational Magazine.
He is brought to the door of his owner's tent, and while the Shaman ceremonies are going on, a cup of milk is placed on his back.
The Shaman offerings usually consisted of three animals sacrificed at once--part of the flesh was eaten, and the rest, stuck on a pole, was consumed by crows or magpies.
As Mackenzie threw him into the snow, he caught a glimpse of the swaying forms before the council-fire, heard the deep basses of the men in rhythmic chant, and knew the Shaman was fanning the anger of his people.
First, I will tell you that the Shaman has an evil tongue and is a false prophet, that the messages he spake are not those of the Fire-Bringer.
The singing and the dancing ceased, and the Shaman flared up in rude eloquence.
Is he minded to tread the trail already broken by the Shaman and the Bear?
The Shaman and half a dozen young braves entered, but he shouldered boldly among them and passed out.
And the shaman desired a man to tie the bird's wings to her side so that she might be still.
The shaman sat down between them and worked all the spells she knew, but they grew no better.
The girl was not in the house at the time that the messenger arrived, but one of the orphans met him, and asked: 'How much will they pay the shaman if she cures them?
And the next day she grew more frightened still, for she found out that the birds were spirits, and it was they who were preventing her from eating food, so that she might become a great shaman or medicine-man.
The canary never ceased making a noise all that time, and at last the shaman said: 'She wants to go to the place where she has put the food and the locks of hair with which she is bewitching the chief and his daughter.
The family of Djun the shamanwas one of the noblest in the tribe, but misfortune had overtaken them.
Hours had passed since the shaman first came to the house, and it was now morning.
After that the shaman went out to meet them, and she asked: 'Where is my aunt?
The shaman described what he met in his path in fantastic language, and by gestures.
Dall says the appellation 'Eskimo' is derived from a word indicating a sorcerer or shaman in the language of the northern tribes.
It originally belonged to a shaman of the Yakutat tribe and was said to have been worn by him in sacrificial slave killings, the shaman with the mask representing some mythical being.
He is the shaman who learned with Fray Luis," said the padre.
But the old Shaman of Ah-ko reached out his hand and touched her bent head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: exorcist; magical; magician; necromantic; sorcerer; voodoo; weird
