Noun
medicine man
- A Native American shamanistic healer. The term is also used to refer to traditional healers of other indigenous peoples.
- 1855, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, XIV,
- And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,
- The Wabenos, the Magicians,
- And the Medicine-men, the Medas,
- Painted upon bark and deer-skin
- Figures for the songs they chanted
- 1891, W. Fletcher Johnson, Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-’91, Edgewood Publishing Co., p. 41,
- Sitting Bull is commonly thought of as a warrior. In point of fact he was not. He was a “medicine man;” which means that he included within himself the three professions of the priesthood, medicine and law.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 9,
- After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.
- 1855, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, XIV,
- French: homme-médecine, sorcier
- German: Medizinmann
- Italian: uomo di medicina
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