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Witch doctor

//ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə// noun

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  1. 1
    A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.

    "[T]he ſaid Dorothy Durent, having been with a Witch-Doctor, acknowledges upon Oath, that by his Advice, ſhe hang'd up her Child's Blanket in the Chimney, found a Toad in it at Night, had put it into the Fire, and held it there tho' it made a great and horrible Noiſe, and flaſht like Gunpowder, and went off like a Piſtol, and then became inviſible, and that by this the Priſoner was ſcorch'd and burn'd lamentably."

  2. 2
    someone who is believed to heal through magical powers wordnet
  3. 3
    A dragonfly. Southern-US

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