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Recent Examples of wonder-worker
Online, a host of experimental, upstart wonder-workers were finding new audiences with eye-catching content about all things demonic.
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Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Readers are shown the likely son of a gardener planting the seeds of literature in Mesopotamia, the jungle shaman carefully hovering over the bones of the dead in the Amazon and the first rumbles of the Minotaur in the Mediterranean.Joe Sills, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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The story centers on the estate’s shifting power dynamics after the arrival of the madame’s new lover, a singer/shaman scholar, as the sisters begin reclaiming their tribal heritage.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
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Brother Larry Schellman taught him about shamans, swamis, and thaumaturges, as well as the Catholic Church’s position on them—namely, that their powers are real but demonically granted.Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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Of Jesus the dusty thaumaturge, the wandering soul-zapper and self-styled son of God, less so.James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
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The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The witches act as dancers and backup singers as well as prophets.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2024
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All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Given that the upcoming trial for tax felonies may have included testimony about how and when the presidential son shared fees from questionable foreign sources with his father, Mason could've had a side gig as a soothsayer.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Through an inexplicable turn of events, Talbot slays a wolf with an antique silver cane; a soothsayer later informs him that the victim is, in fact, her transformed son.EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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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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Working as an investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), Hellboy is sent to England to battle an ancient sorceress, Nimue the Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich), who is determined to unleash a deadly plague on humanity and bring about the apocalypse.Travis Bean, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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Those wishes came true in September 2022, when the sorceress siblings reunited to enchant a new generation of Halloweeners in Disney+’s Hocus Pocus 2.Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Wonder-worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonder-worker. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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