OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21402

witch doctor

/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bruja • brujo • curandera • curandero • hechicera • hechicero • nahual
A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.
At that consultation, according to the habit of a witch-doctor, he divined and announced the occasion of their attendance, and indicated the complainant, Mdungazwe, as the wizard w…
Some people are so foolish as to go to a witch-doctor when they have Cows in this complaint [prematurely parting with their unborn calves]:—they give him some money, and he tells t…
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