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2. Fugara - Wikipedia

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   Fugara or Fuqara are shaman or people with supernatural powers in Bedouin shamanism. [1] Fugara means 'weak' as these individuals are known to avoid hefty meals. [2] They are masters of desert mysticism and are believed to have access to the spiritual realm. They provide advice, teaching or spiritual insight to entire tribes, along with tending ...

3. Curandero - Wikipedia

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   The shaman is also known as chonteador, and his most important wand is the chonta defensa; if he dies without disciples, the chonta is thrown, wrapped in rubands [clarification needed] and weighted with stones, to the bottom of a lake with the belief that its power will reemerge when a new shaman will take office.

4. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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   Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination , or to aid human beings in some other way.

5. Angakkuq - Wikipedia

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   In posthumous cases, the shaman might appear in a dream and direct the family personally, or the family might decide to honor the angakkuq of their own accord to maintain their link to the family. [17] A person who was named for a shaman might inherit some of their spiritual powers, but was not necessarily bound to become a shaman themselves. [18]

6. Santo Daime - Wikipedia

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   Santo Daime, sometimes called simply the 'Doctrine of Mestre Irineu', [2] is the name given to the religious practice originally begun in the 1920s [3] in the far western Brazilian state (then territory) of Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, a migrant from Maranhão in Brazil's northeast region, and grandson of slaves.

7. Regional forms of shamanism - Wikipedia

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   Shamanism is a part of Vietnamese folk religion, three branches of shamanism are known today as Đạo Mẫu, Thánh Trần worship and Nội Đạo Tràng (of which the most famous is Đạo Mẫu). In Vietnam, this ritual practice is called lên đồng or also known as hầu bóng , or hầu đồng , sessions involve artistic elements such ...