The shamans do not seem to have enjoyed that distinction among the Aleuts that their monopoly of mediation between man and the invisible world gave them among other nations.
The same thing is true of the tedious and disgusting rites performed by the Tinneh shamans over the sick and at various other emergencies.
The Thlinkeets, for example, believed that their shamans used to have interviews with certain spirits of the dead that appeared to them in two forms, some as land animals, some as marine.
Slaves, however, who were buried, were condemned to freeze, but the shamans whose bodies were also left to moulder, had doubtless power to avoid such misery.
The takeeyek, 'land-spirits,' appear to the shamans in the form of land animals.
Such pretensions are firmly believed in and acknowledged by the credulous and are practiced by that class of Shamans here designated as the Wâbĕnō´.
The reference to flame (fire) denotes the class of conjurers or Shamans to which this power is granted, i.
Great magic shamans are there together just at noon.
But if, in the case of a shaman, his wampum was almost black, then he would win over these shamans, the others who had the most wampum, after the shamans had smoked their pipes.
And according to their strength among these shamans it was known who was the most powerful.
A large painted board near the graves of the shamans remained, though damaged.
The burials of three shamans and one chief had been in huge boxes above ground; but they had all been broken into and most of the contents belonging to the dead were taken away, including the skulls.
On the point were several burials of shamans and a chief of the tribe (all other dead being cremated), and near the graves stood until a short time ago a moderate-sized totem pole.
The shamans and their faithful followers believe, or profess to believe, that the direst vengeance of the gods would visit them if these rites were varied in the least in picture, prayer, song, or ceremonial.
The Uakanyi, to which Tse-tse wished to belong, were the Shamans of War; they had all the secrets of strategy and spells to protect a man from his enemies.
There were also Shamans of hunting, of medicine and priestcraft.
Then it was handed from one to another of a number of lesser Shamans and chiefs for inspection.
By their Shamans and chiefs I was venerated; by the common people I was feared; while all recognized my extraordinary powers.
Could not one of our shamansor our braves make it obey him also?
Our wise women and our shamans have secrets and wonders thou knowest not of.
I have seen in truth strange cures among thy people; and were my ill a fever such as might come to them or the result of an arrow's bite, I would gladly let thy shamans have their will with me.
The shamans and priests had advised the werowance thus.
And delighteth he not in incantations of shamans and jossakeed (inspired prophets) and in self-torture?
Catanaugh was afraid he might forget some of the magic words the Okee would speak, which the shamans had told him he must hold fast in his mind as he would hold a slippery eel in his hand.
Of course, it was wise for the shamans to make this trial, but he wished it had been possible for one of them to have taken his place.
In every religious ceremony he would take an active part, would fast if the shamans said it was pleasing to Okee, would kill his enemies or save them for slaves, whichever the shamans suggested.
The shamans had been determined to find out what kind of an Okee protected the white men, and it was only in this spot they could do so.
Thus, fetich-men and shamansare the first doctors.
Similarly, the two staffs which the Siberian Shamans hold in their hands during their exorcisms are supposed to draw them, like horses driven at full gallop, towards regions inhabited by spirits.
These were usually undertaken by three shamans acting in concert for the purpose of rescuing the 'astral body' of a sick patient from the Land of Spirits.
The shamans next replaced the soul in the body of their patient, who forthwith recovered.
The shamans of the Chinooks were a medico-religious fraternity, the members of which worked individually, as a general rule, but sometimes in concert.
The threeshamans who undertook the search for the sick man's spiritual body threw themselves into a state of clairvoyance; their souls, temporarily detached from their bodies, then followed the spiritual track of the sick man's soul.
Some of these shamans are superior hunters and, as their experience teaches them the habits of the deer, they know at any season exactly where the animals are and can anticipate their future movements, influenced greatly by the weather.
These spirits assume an infinite variety of forms, and to know just what form it assumed when it inflicted its baneful effects, the shamans or medicine men must be consulted.
In every case the shamans must give their advice as to how the devils are to be got rid of, and must reveal the wishes of the demons.
Shamans make masks representing grotesque faces of supernatural beings which they claim to have seen.
Shamans are believed to have the power of seeing through the animal mask to the manlike features behind.
Two of the most famousshamans offered him a shaman's cloak with the long fringe, and a number of metal amulets and musical instruments.
Among the nontotemic Kurnai of Southeast Australia there are animal patrons of the sexes and of shamans and other individuals.
Women, however, are sometimesshamans in such tribes, as in the California Shasta (while in the neighboring Maidu they are commonly men).
In this region, moreover, among the Kurnai, not only shamans but all other men have each his special "brother" and protector.
And I wandered alone in the blackness of night to the river bank, where was wind-moaning and sobbing of water, and where I sought wisdom from the ghosts of old shamans in the trees and dead and gone.
I talked with the shamans and the old men who were wise.
The reverent character of the best "priests" or shamans among the Pawnee and Omaha has been emphasized by Miss A.
American Indian shamans in general have been gathered in a recent article by Dr R.
This, according to him, was where he tested the rainforest plants the shamans and midwives brought in.
Still, the old shamans and midwives all know of herbs they claim can cure everything from menstrual cramps to cancer.
To that end he was resolved to apply to the leading shamans of the tribe.
At the end of the fourth day, with many prayers and ceremonies, the circle is obliterated, and the other objects, including the effigy, are taken away by the shamans to be disposed of in a manner known to them alone.
The Shyayak are in possession of the spell which charms game, in other words they are the shamans of the hunt.
With this the shamans filed out, one after the other.
But she was his only child, and ere he placed faith in the suspicion communicated to him in secret by one of the shamans in the tribe, he wanted to satisfy himself from her own behaviour whether it was true or not.
The Delight Makers were the chief assistants of the shamans in any public ceremony, and indispensable to them in many ways.
Now the council gave demonstrations not only of amazement but of violent indignation; the shamans and Topanashka alone remained calm.
It was easy to taunt or to tease Shotaye, but to arouse her anger appeared a dangerous undertaking; and as for harming her person, none but the shamans would have attempted it.
These were the chief penitents; those without badges or distinctive dress, the principalshamans of the tribe.
The Uakanyi practise magic in warfare, they are theshamans of war.
When the shamans drove him out, he went to the house of his aunt in the village and told her what he had said, and how the shamans had beaten him and driven him out of the kashim.
After the shamans had tried very hard to bring back the sun and moon and had failed, the boy began to ridicule them.
What fine shamans you must be, not to be able to bring back the light, when even I can do it," he said mockingly.
At this the shamansbecame very angry and beat him and drove him out of the kashim.
In general the shamans are held in check by the belief that should they abuse their power they will be long and severely punished after death.
The shamans practiced all their mysteries, and invoked the spirits, but they could not stop the disease.
The shamans possess great power over their superstitious subjects, and their commands are rarely refused.
Even the magic of the shamans failed to bring back the light.
When the magic of the shamans failed to bring back the sun and moon into the sky the boy mocked them.
He told her the shamans had failed to bring back the light, and they had beaten him when he mocked them.
Thus there arose the shamans with all their ceremonies.
It was through the Land Otters that shamanswere first known.
He put them into the water and shouted as the shamans do.
Then the shamans were angry and beat that boy and drove him out of the kashim.
Shamans are lucky if they can get the spirit canoes.
THE CHIEF IN THE MOON Eskimo (Bering Straits) Far away in the moon lives a great chief and shamans with strong magic visit him there.
The Thlinkeets think that their Shamans can metamorphose themselves into animals at pleasure; and a very old raven was pointed out to Mr. C.
The belief that his Shamans or medicine-men practise this art is universal among savages.
Of this latter description were the wizards of the Finns and Lappes, the angekoks of the Esquimaux; and such are the shamans of all the countries in Northern Asia, where neither Buddhism nor Islamism has yet penetrated.
Some of the shamans of the olden time acquired great influence and made life miserable for their fellow-citizens by the practice of witchcraft.
They resorted to their shamans (ekhts) or medicine men in case of illness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shamans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
