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  • noun hypercorrect Plural form of shaman; the standard plural form is shamans.

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Examples

  • One sure way to spot a plastic shaman: if he uses constructs such as "shamen" or "shawoman"- it is a whole word; "sha" is not a prefix for "man".

    Video Resource on Cultural Misappropriation Steve Caldwell 2008

  • Canadian psychoanalyst Dan Merkur listed five ways in which cultures have used psychedelics for spiritual transformation: the "mass religious revival" of the hippies; the training of religious specialists, such as shamen; group ritual use, such as indigenous ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies; initiation rites, such as the use of ibogaine by the Bwiti of Gabon; and their more recent Western use in therapy.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Steven Wishnia 2008

  • If Tuillie's tool were to be the engine of his own destruction, I thought he'd have gotten gangrene after a candiru fish swam up his urethra on an ethnobotanical tour of the Amazon to consume rare psychoactives with the shamen of violent rainforest tribes like the Yanomamo.

    Ramona at the Funeral Thomas Pluck 2011

  • I hear the Shadows croaking to each other, cursing and calling for their shamen, but the sound is distant to my ears.

    ASTRUM EXURO • by Rhiannon Morgan 2009

  • Perhaps it's the drugs, with pre-release publicity focusing on singer Paul Butler's journey into the Peruvian jungle to drop fashionable psychedelic ayahuasca with the local shamen.

    The Bees: Every Step's A Yes – review Gareth Grundy 2010

  • In some ways, mystics, medicine men, shamen, psychics, and other seers or prophets are much more spiritually relevant than some of the more authoritative and decorated religious leaders.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • In some ways, mystics, medicine men, shamen, psychics, and other seers or prophets are much more spiritually relevant than some of the more authoritative and decorated religious leaders.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • The only heretic in the village is Sime, a disbeliever in shamen and their shenanigans and a man said to be unafraid of anything, even of the dark.

    “And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008

  • In some ways, mystics, medicine men, shamen, psychics, and other seers or prophets are much more spiritually relevant than some of the more authoritative and decorated religious leaders.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • In some ways, mystics, medicine men, shamen, psychics, and other seers or prophets are much more spiritually relevant than some of the more authoritative and decorated religious leaders.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

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