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medicine man

1. A male shaman or shamanistic healer, especially among Native American peoples.

2. A hawker of brews and potions among the audience in a medicine show.

medicine man

(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (among certain peoples, esp North American Indians) a person believed to have supernatural powers of healing; a magician or sorcerer

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Noun

medicine man - a Native American shaman

rainmaker - American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain

priest-doctor, shaman - in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination

Translations

medicine man n → stregone m

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