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==Medicine man== | ==Medicine man== | ||
A '''medicine man''' or '''medicine woman''' is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of indigenous people of the Americas. Individual cultures have their own names, in their respective Indigenous languages, for the spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders in their particular cultures. | A '''medicine man''' or '''medicine woman''' is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of indigenous people of the Americas. Individual cultures have their own names, in their respective Indigenous languages, for the spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders in their particular cultures. | ||
==Vegetalistas== | |||
Vegetalismo is a term used to refer to a practice of mestizo shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon in which the shamans – known as vegetalistas – gain their knowledge and power to cure from the vegetables, or plants of the region. Many receive their knowledge from ingesting the [[hallucinogen]]ic, emetic brew [[ayahuasca]].<ref name="luna">[https://www.scribd.com/doc/26541421/Vegetalismo-Shamanism-Among-the-Mestizo-Population-of-the-Peruvian-Amazon Luis Eduardo Luna, ''Vegetalismo shamanism among the Mestizo population of the Peruvian Amazon'']. Scribd.com (1986-06-05). Retrieved on 2012-05-01.</ref><ref name="curelist">''[http://thecurelist.com/vegetalismo/ Vegetalismo]''</ref> | |||
==Witch doctor== | ==Witch doctor== | ||