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Themedicinemanidentifies himself with his personal totem.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After studying the symptoms of a sickness, amedicinemanmay prescribe a remedy to his patient.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While anyone may have one, usually it would be themedicineman, or shaman, of a tribe who would carry one.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The next day amedicinemanfrom the east shows up selling potions and bright cheerful things.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Strict taboos were held on what players could eat before a game, and themedicinemanperformed rituals to prepare players and their sticks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Others have negotiated this relationship differently, maintaining a distinct category ofmedicinemantalk whose use is inappropriate.
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But they should not learn anything that risks being construed asmedicinemantalk.
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Instead, he has done his itinerantmedicinemanact.
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Apparently, themedicinemanhas died out there as a result of rough physical treatment which sometimes met the failure of his more exaggerated claims.
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These gentlemen are the genealogical descendants of the samemedicinemanwhen it comes to interest rates.
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Perhaps there is to-day a tendency to endow the medical man with some of the attributes that arc elsewhere supposed to inhere in themedicineman.
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He was not amedicinemanor conjuror, but a wise counselor and diplomat, always dignified, quiet and never given to boasting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The son and daughter of a shopkeeper fall in with a travellingmedicineman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She is about to return home when she meets themedicineman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unfortunately, themedicinemanreveals that the flowers have no juju power to heal.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Often a "bomoh" (medicineman) would be called in to do a ritual exorcism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In many countries the smith is seen as amedicineman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the other side there is amedicineman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themedicinemanmay find curse objects implanted inside the victim's body.
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