(1) While performing the ritual, the shaman (witch doctor) dances and enters into a trance.(2) One becomes a shaman by apprenticing to a shaman and learning the magic formulas to be recited on different occasions.(3) The rituals are performed under the direction of the shaman .(4) Split into groups to ward off wild animals, bad weather and harmful spirits, the shamans were confidant of their success, though three scouts reportedly were found crying until they fainted.(5) Since most shamanist activity took place in the home, there was no religious organization to attack, and so it was relatively easy for shamanism to survive underground.(6) Confucianism, Taoism, and shamanism have also influenced Japanese religion.(7) They are recruited in classical shamanic fashion, including divine election - through birth, sickness and dreams - and their initiation involves a marriage to a spirit spouse.(8) Religious roles, from shamans to Catholic priests to Muslim imams, are dominated by men.(9) The oldest Buddhist sect in Tibet, it emphasizes mysticism and incorporates shamanistic practices and local deities borrowed from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion.(10) Jones refines her shamanistic readings by arguing that the hero-kings of Celtic literature, rather than the Druids, are the ones who undergo shamanistic initiation.(11) Religious experts vary from formally installed priests and teachers representing the institutionalized religions to self-ordained shamans , healers, and sorcerers.(12) There is a strong animistic and shamanic tradition.(13) Can it be a good idea to take shamanist ways of working and using them for spiritualist work?(14) For millennia, shamans and witch doctors, the therapists of indigenous and preindustrial cultures, made no distinction between physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.(15) They were Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Manicheans, pagans, nomads, shamanists , and animists as well, and, ethnically speaking, Seljuks, Khazars, Bulgars, Timurids, Mongols, Anatolians and Chinese.(16) Sometimes, magicians and shamans can provide this advice.
