📚 Shaman, noun. 🔉 /ˈʃɑːmən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing. ❗️ Examples: 1. While performing the ritual, the shaman (witch doctor) dances and enters into a trance. 2. Rituals of traditional belief systems mark life-cycle events or involve propitiation for particular occasions and are led by shamans, spirit mediums, or prayer masters (male or female). 3. Other religious practitioners include spirit mediums and shamans, most of whom are women. 4. He now suggests they were used as ‘spirit tracks’ by prehistoric shamans who, in trances, travelled along them on out-of-body travel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic