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Witch doctor
Type of healer in many traditional medicine systems / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the folk healers. For other uses, see Witch Doctor.
A witch doctor (also spelled witch-doctor) was originally a type of healer who treated ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft.[1] The term is now more commonly used to refer to healers, particularly in regions which use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine.
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