INCHEON - The outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in South Korea may still be unknown, but shaman Yang Su-bong told AFP that the winner appeared in her visions years ago. South Koreans ...

Manvir Singh’s new Shamanism: The Timeless Religion ranges widely, introducing us to all sorts of shamans and neo-shamans and proto-shamans. We meet the cigarette-loving tribal healers among the ...

“Jhakri” is the Nepalese word for shaman; in Nepal it refers to practitioners of the ethnic groups of the Tamang, Magar, Rai, Limbu and Gurung people. Chet Bahadur Thing, 26, a renowned ...

Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol is facing disapproval from local shamans over his purported links to a spiritual adviser who is under investigation for corruption. Yoon, who was ...

Korean Shamanism, known as Mugyo, continues to thrive in contemporary South Korea, blending ancient rituals with modern needs. This video explores the diverse practices of shamans (mudang), their ...

Historian Fletcher (Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century) incisively explores the dark underbelly of American evangelical missionary work via Continue reading ...

A dozen shamans from various parts of Peru gathered on Lima's San Cristobal hill on Friday to deliver their predictions for the year and pray for peace and harmony. (AP Video by Mauricio Muñoz ...

Inside the precarious structures, Aymara shamans pray to the Andean gods to protect them from the threat of collapse. In recent years, the erosion of the mountain range around La Paz has ...

Once I mastered enough of this knowledge to become a “white shaman,” I used the power I felt I had acquired to heal the sick, exorcize demons, and protect people from black magic attacks ...

Shamanism in Taiwan is thriving because folk religion is thriving. Folk religion is not just a religion in Taiwan; it is part of an accepted worldview. Participating in shamanistic rituals is ...

For three months, the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, visited fortune-telling shops and shamanic prayer sites across the country to shed light on the two faces of ...

In Santa Marta, a small village in Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous region, aging shamans are seeking to preserve and pass down knowledge of traditional medicinal plants. Village members say ...