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Indian Healing Beliefs
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Believing that evil spirits caused diseases, the Indians used
charms and magic to remove the evil influence. The magical procedures were
usually preformed by those supposed to have the power to control spirit
forces. Indians might call them such names as “mystery man”, “singer”, or
the “wonderful”. ....
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....their work. They are ‘medicine'
in their cultures; learned, capable individuals who hold places of respect
in their communities.
One must be very careful when using the term's medicine man or
women, healer, or shaman, because these are terms for concepts for which
there are no direct translation from tribal languages. Each tribe has a
particular title for its healers, a title not easily gained, for knowledge
of these professions is closely guarded and many long years of
apprenticeship to.... |
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