Medicine Man Definition

Medicine Man Sentence Examples

• It used to be that the medicine man was the most respected individual in the village.

• A young Piute Indian medicine-man, known as Wovoka, and called Jack Wilson by the whites, proclaimed that he had had a revelation, and that, if this ghost dance and other ceremonies were duly performed, the Indians would be rid of the white men and restored to power.

• Although it is usually present, faith in the medicine man is not essential for the efficacy of the method.

• Sometimes the supposed magician or medicine man himself did the scrying; occasionally he enabled his client to see for himself; often a child was selected as the scryer.

• Let the medicine man or magician pray that the fever may pass into the frog, and the frog be forthwith released, and the cure will be effected.