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Witch Doctor: Understanding Traditional Healers Across Cultures
Across regions and across time, people often turn to local practitioners—commonly labeled in English as “witch doctors”—for spiritual guidance, healing, and mediation between the seen and unseen. The term itself is contested and has colonial and pejorative connotations; many communities prefer terms like “traditional healer,” “curandero/curandera,” “sangoma,” or other local names. In this article we…