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The Shamanic Wizard of the Wizards

The first wizard in history was probably a shamanic sorcerer, or tribal warlock, a witch doctor.

He was a medium who communicated with the gods and spirits, and could divinely travel the world of the gods and spirits.

We are familiar with those characteristics of traditional witches and need not repeat them.

Apothecaries or shamans usually carry a wooden staff or rod and wear robes made of animal fur or bird feathers.

Shamanism originated in northern Asia, Siberia, and the Eskimo region.

As a form of mystical witchcraft, North American apothecaries and African witchdoctors can be categorized as shamans.

Tribal shamans in the far north, who were distinctly nomadic, also prayed to spirits to gather animals to help them in their hunting endeavors.

Their nomadic lifestyle is very similar to that depicted in the frescoes in the caves of France and Spain.

The teachings of shamanism are filled with the idea that everything has a spirit.

They believe that animals, plants, and even all the "stuff" around us, like men and women, have lives and souls, and that we can communicate with them.

But not everyone can do this, only those with special abilities. Wakan psychic power" - to Bai Gan nature's psychic power; Iroquois tribes in the indigenous peoples of North America is called "Olander".

Those who possessed this magical power could enter the world of the spirits in a way similar to the Buddhist practice of jhana, a state of meditative detachment from one's physical surroundings.

There, he can not only communicate mentally with the gods and goddesses, but also with God or gods and goddesses.

He can get some information from the gods, and he can also use the power of the gods to heal the patient's mental or physical wounds.

The power of the sorcerer is often closely related to his clothing, which is often made of animal skins or feathers from the natural world, signifying an alliance with the natural world.

At some point in his magical journey, this alliance can help him.

In the United States, wizards' cloaks are made from the hides of North American bison; in Polynesia, a wizard's cloak is sewn from a kind of bark cloth, beautifully embroidered; and the cloaks of the wizards of Tahiti and Hawaii are far more magnificent than any of these, and are painstakingly sewn from the feathers of a rare bird.

Shamans, witchdoctors, and magical apothecaries have a way of communicating with the souls of the dead, which is often referred to as "channeling".

The skills of Brazilian shamans are usually inherited, passed on from father to son - with the occasional exception that if a member of the tribe has not inherited this extraordinary ability, he or she may be eligible to learn to "channel" the spirits of a particular deity (one of the most prestigious). Let a spirit (the most prestigious of which is the jaguar's spirit) into his body, so that he became a real sorcerer.