Definitions
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- noun in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination
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Examples
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She assumed the form of a priest-doctor, clothed herself in a priest's gown, with the regulation headdress and straw shoes, and attached to her girdle a gourd containing pills and other medicines.
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But the whole decision rests entirely with the patient and his confessor; or they can call in an expert priest-doctor.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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With the Katingans the blian (priest-doctor) always drinks a little of the blood when an animal is sacrificed.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Every tribe has a priest-doctor; he neither knows nor attempts to practise the healing art, but is a pure exorcist; all bodily ailments being deemed the operations of devils, who are cast out by prayers and invocations.
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Examen to be forwarded to a priest-doctor for a few weeks. "
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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