medicine man
Etymology
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Etymology
Probably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini (“doctor”), from
medicine man
- A Native American shamanistic healer.
- Hypernyms: shaman
- Hyponym: (Navajos) hataalii
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, section 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
- A traditional healer among other indigenous or ancient peoples.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 9, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
- 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.
- folk medicine
- herbal medicine
- indigenous medicine
- medicinal
- traditional medicine
- French: homme-médecine, sorcier
- German: Medizinmann
- Italian: uomo di medicina
- Portuguese: curandeiro, curandeira
- Spanish: hombre medicina
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