Sentence examples for shaman by from inspiring English sources

Brown has been periodically denounced as a "plastic shaman" by skeptical students and Native American activists for his alleged appropriation of American Indian mystique.

I'm reading a non-fiction book called Vodou Shaman by Ross Heaven (if you read The Fog of Forgetting you will begin to understand why), and I just finished a novel by Kate Christensen called The Astral.

Be a shaman by being second or first on the scoreboard (the one by the seconds board).

The best-known living practitioners - Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, Richard Nelson, Terry Tempest Williams, Annie Dillard - are treated midway between celebrities and shamans by the US literary press.

It is authoritatively played by Iain Armstrong, as the grizzled, Prospero-like shaman, and by Mick Jasper, as his mutinous creation who wittily suggests his emergence into life by a process of self-exploration.

Said shaman, filmed by local TV news in South America, even enlisted the help of a turtle to slow the rapid winger.

He does not become a shaman simply by willing it, for it is not the shaman who summons up the spirits but they, the supernatural beings, who choose him.

On this year's roster are Dropbeat Heartbeat (shades of Green Day), Dyeth (whose band members perform in white button-downs spattered with cartoonish blood) and sub:shaman (fronted by an ethereal yet firm female vocalist).

It's a shaman, carved by craftsmen of the Haida tribe, from the Queen Charlotte Islands just south of Alaska.

Which is why we can today marvel at a cave painting (now known to be as likely painted by women shamans as by men) with the same degree of awe and astonishment that we marvel at a Frida Kahlo and a Georgia O' Keefe.

Ridden by a gurning shaman and drawn by mangy foxes, it contains a wunderkammer of strange medicaments.