73 examples of medicine-man in sentences

So the tribal story-teller comes to be the most important character"the Jesuit smiled in that shrewd and gentle way of his"that is, of course, after the Shamán, as the Russians call him, the medicine-man, who is a teller of stories, too, in his more circumscribed fashion.

" "Oh yes, medicine-man," said the Boy, following the narrative eagerly.

Sitting on the golden slope at the campoodie, looking across the Bitter Lake to the purple tops of Mutarango, the medicine-man drew up its happy places one by one, like little blessed islands in a sea of talk.

When three patients die under his ministrations, the medicine-man must yield his life and his office.

Winnenap' was medicine-man for fifteen years.

There had not been a medicine-man killed in the valley for twelve years, and for that the perpetrators had been severely punished by the whites.

While I turned the leaves of my Bible with nervous fingers, the medicine-man came forth from the dwelling and walked hurriedly away.

Useless was my attempt to change the faith in the medicine-man to that abstract power named God.

Then one day I became righteously mad with anger that the medicine-man should thus ensnare my father's soul.

The medicine-man had won the hearts of the people.

My father had not risen from his bed since the day the medicine-man led the people away.

But still, as Rochefoucauld is the very medicine-man of maxims, we will leave it at that.

Medicine-man as I am, I could never behold her suddenly without a sensation of shock: she suggested so inevitably what we call "the other world," one detecting about her some odour of the worm, with the feeling that here was rather ghost than woman.

A fine-looking chieftain arose and spoke: "The sister of the great Medicine-man has spoken well.

The medicine dance is carried on chiefly to celebrate the skill of the "Medicine-man" in curing diseases.

Then the chief Medicine-man takes the candidate and privately instructs him in all the ceremonies and knowledge necessary to make him an accomplished member of the fraternity.

Each Medicine-man has a bag or sack, in which is supposed to be inclosed some animal, to whom, in the course of their pow-wows, he addresses himself, crying to him in the note common to his imagined species.

"Say, rather, your Medicine-Man," archly replied the Monk.

Conceive that Zeus, or Baiame, was originally, not a Father and guardian, but a lewd and tricky ghost of a medicine-man, a dancer of indecent dances, a wooer of other men's wives, a shape-shifter, a burlesque droll, a more jocular bugbear, like Twanyirika.

In General Mason Brown's instance the medicine-man, at a great distance, bade his emissaries 'seek three whites, whose horses, arms, attire, and personal appearance he minutely described, which description was repeated to General Brown by the warriors before they saw his two companions.'

The examples given of the last class, the class which would be so useful to a priest or medicine-man asked to discover things lost, are of very slight interest.[10] Since Miss X drew attention to this subject, experiments have proved beyond doubt that a fair percentage of people, sane and healthy, can see vivid landscapes, and figures of persons in motion, in glass balls and other vehicles.

Any one who can accept the assurance of my personal belief in the good faith of all concerned will see how very useful this faculty of crystal-gazing must be to the Apache or Australian medicine-man or Polynesian priest.

I do not pretend to know how the lowest savages evolved the theory of a God who reads the heart and 'makes for righteousness,' It is as easy, almost, for me to believe that they 'were not left without a witness,' as to believe that this God of theirs was evolved out of the maleficent ghost of a dirty mischievous medicine-man.

In a word, the Kakekikokuans are in the clutches of the medicine-man.

It proceeded with many interruptions from the Angekoks, who tried more than once to bewitch him, but finally gave it up, convinced that he was a great medicine-man himself, and therefore invulnerable.

73 examples of  medicine-man  in sentences