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The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.—
Kyra Colah,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025 -
To find his way home, the lost seafarer Odysseus must travel to the underworld to receive a prophecy from the blind seer, Tiresias.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
21 Aug. 2024
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With Lottie as their shaman, the girls and Travis (Kevin Alves) practiced tuning into their surroundings, engaging in casual sacrifices (a few drops of blood or dead birds here and there), and ultimately creating a ritual way to hunt, kill, and eat one of their own while food ran scarce.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
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Well, Hyun-ju does beat up the shaman lady, Seon-nyeo, at one time by slapping her.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2025
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Rather than the typical market outlook, fraught with all the dangers of being a soothsayer, this outlook will endeavor to take a journey like Lewis Carroll’s Alice to find some reality in markets that can sometimes seem unreal or irrational.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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Wall Street’s soothsayers expect another year of double-digit gains after the S&P 500 posted back-to-back advances of over 20% in 2023 and 2024.—
Royce Branning,
Fortune,
30 Nov. 2024
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Being wrong puts off neither prophets nor their followers.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was born on that humble spot on December 23, 1805.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Dec. 2024
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This year's group of pups is ready to wow football fans with their prediction and is aiming to have a better track record than last year's fluffy Super Bowl fortune tellers.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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This is probably better answered by fortune tellers and movie makers.—
Chris Boudreau,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.—
Eric Andersson,
Peoplemag,
19 Feb. 2024
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On the other chair was Sincere Seven, the 43-year-old master of this ceremony, who calls himself a multidimensional travel agent, spiritual tour guide, medicine man and witch doctor.—
John Carlisle,
Freep.com,
18 Aug. 2022
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After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.—
Trilce Estrada Olvera,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Aug. 2024
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Iron Eyes, a 46-year-old lawyer and Indigenous rights activist, was 9 when a medicine man taught him traditions he’s maintained since, in the wake of the tribe’s annual sun dance ceremony at the park.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
26 July 2024
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“Exorcist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorcist. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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