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shamaness

n. female shaman

Usage examples of "shamaness".

The shamaness held a ceremony of purification and a ceremony to avert any further bad occurrences.

Ask for the shamaness and say you have a message from the Voice of the Waterfall.

A fire burned in the fire pit, and the house of the shamaness was full of aromatic smoke.

Eshtanabai told me about the old shamaness, the one before the one they had now.

We kill them, and the shamaness performs ceremonies to avert bad luck.

I know they are envious, and the new shamaness was born in their clan—though now, of course, she belongs to the Clan of the First Magician.

If the shamaness is trying to drive me crazy, then I must try to be ordinary.

When we get to a place where there is a shamaness, we will ask for ceremonies to placate Inahooli or drive her away.

On the second day of the ceremony, when the shamaness was in a deep trance, our aunt Iatzi lost her baby.

The moon had nothing to do with what was happening, and our shamaness is the daughter of the old shamaness.

Even my mother the shamaness did not have a whatever as big as this one.

But I met her in the village of the Copper People in the house of their shamaness Nahusai.

Hardly the right thing for a middle-aged shamaness, dressed up for a major social occasion.

The villagers might remember how close their shamaness had been to the woman they had exiled.

But then, he told himself, a shamaness who could summon chiefs would certainly live as well as they.