| 单词 | spirit doctor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit doctor spirit doctor n. (chiefly with reference to animistic belief systems) a traditional healer or shaman; cf. witch doctor n. 1b. ΚΠ 1850 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 4 594 Native remedies have failed to cure him, and ere his failing strength desert him, he sends for the ‘spirit-doctor’. 1936 Discovery June 187/1 The would-be spirit-doctor, who must have what the African regards as a faculty for ‘seeing spirits’—we might term it clairvoyancy. 2014 Nova Religio 18 30 Although the spirit doctor continued to offer diagnoses and prescriptions for ailments, he insisted that the real power to heal came from the sitters. < as lemmas |
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