Meanwhile, although the founder of the movement advocated submission to local authorities, young men claiming to be his messengers attacked elders and sorcerers.
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The smith is the ultimatesorcerer, who - while being visibly forging - is dealing with invisible forces which he masters or manipulates.
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Religious rituals are rarely shown on stage and there is a notable absence of sorcerers, priestesses and processions.
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He is a very powerfulsorcerer, who seems to control the power to give and to take life.
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The colonial state had dismissed witchcraft eradication discourse and prohibited anti-witchcraft leaders from selecting sorcerers (wachawi) to eradicate it.
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The smith is also one of the strongest sorcerers (mologre).
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Thus, priestess,sorcerer, and witch became synonymous.
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Some revivalists thought him a greedysorcerer.
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They were feared as sorcerers.
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Whether some recent historians of the subject will prove in this context to be merely sorcerer's apprentices is a matter for urgent public as well as professional concern.
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So asorcererwho transforms into a bear does not do so as a disguise, but in order to harness bear 'effects' in order to undertake suitably bear-like activities.
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Gikuyu had long punished sorcerers with fire.
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Clearly, nuclear disasters would have ceased long ago if moderation had prevailed over the excitement of all the sorcerer's apprentices.
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Nevertheless, to become asorcerer, one has to be an apprentice.
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The position is that of the sorcerer's apprentice.
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