medicine man

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a Native American shaman

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medicine-man

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The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself. Mircea Eliade

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. Albert Murray

The earliest authority was the word of the strongest warrior, the head of the family or the tribe, the medicine man or the witch doctor. Kirby Page

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. Shana Alexander

Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping. Kamba Proverb

Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping. African Proverb

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