shamans

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shamans (Paper 90)
always powerful check on kings (70:6.6)
believed in their spirit possession (90:1.3)
enchanters’ practices derived from ancient superstitions (90:2.2) (150:3.11)
fetish men thought to be directed by spirit ghosts (89:1.2)
first police officers; ghosts administered justice through (70:10.5)
first professional class; exempted from physical work (69:3.5)
often epileptics (88:1.9)
often of low-grade mind and morals; became wealthy (90:2.12)
presume to stand between man and God as intermediaries, interpreters, and intercessors (90:0.3)
ranking medicine men, ceremonial fetishmen (90:1.1)
resorted to fraud and trickery (88:1.10) (90:1.4)
s. who failed without alibi demoted or killed (90:1.5) (90:2.6)
some early communities ruled by (70:5.8)
superstitious exaltation of family of swordmakers (69:3.9)
terribly expensive, but worth all they cost (92:3.7-9)
used because the spirit world was unresponsive to ordinary mortals (90:0.2)
voodoo doctors typical of magicians of old (88:6.1)
women were s. because they tended home fires (69:6.5) (88:6.1)

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