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Shaman

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Russian postcard, from a picture taken in 1908 , showing shaman. She is probably of Khakas ethnicity. (Picture taken by by S. I. Borisov)[1][2][3]

A shaman is a kind of medicine man who practices shamanism. Shamans were believed to be able to talk to the spirit world, usually animal spirits. Shamans "are ... thought to have the ability to heal the sick, [and] to (talk with or) communicate with the otherworld, and often to (travel with, or) escort the souls of the dead to [another world where our spirit can go, or] that otherworld", according to media.[4]

In some tribes shamanism is important such as the Yanomamis (a Venezuelan tribe in the Venezuelan forest).

A shaman was a person who had a special connection to the spiritual world.

The earliest known drawing of a Siberian shaman; Made by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, 17th century. Witsen called him a "priest of the Devil"; The drawing has feet, and those have claws;.[5]
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  1. ↑ Hoppál 2005, pp. 77, 287.
  2. ↑ Znamensky, Andrei A. (2005). "Az ősiség szépsége: altáji török sámánok a szibériai regionális gondolkodásban (1860–1920)". In Molnár, Ádám (ed.). Csodaszarvas. Őstörténet, vallás és néphagyomány. Vol. I (in Hungarian). Budapest: Molnár Kiadó. pp. 117–34. ISBN 978-963-218-200-1., p. 128
  3. ↑ Znamensky, Andrei A. (2005). "Az ősiség szépsége: altáji török sámánok a szibériai regionális gondolkodásban (1860–1920)". In Molnár, Ádám (ed.). Csodaszarvas. Őstörténet, vallás és néphagyomány. Vol. I (in Hungarian). Budapest: Molnár Kiadó. p. 128. ISBN 978-963-218-200-1.
  4. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/topic/shamanism. Retrieved 2025-10-16
  5. ↑ Hutton 2001, p. 32.
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