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William Griggs was a medical doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts. He is best known as the doctor who diagnosed the Salem Villagers as possessed, during the time of the Salem witch trials . [ 1 ] Griggs was in charge of diagnosing and determining how "much" of a witch they were.
A witch doctor (also spelled witch-doctor), or witchcraft doctor, [1] is a kind of magical healer who treats ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft. [2] The term is often misunderstood, and they could more accurately be called "anti-witch doctors".
Other types include sobadors, who are masseurs, and brujos or brujas, who are witch doctors. [13] Among these broader terms, there are several subspecialties. For instance, yerberos who work primarily with tobacco to heal patients are known as tabaqueros. Healers who work primarily with ayahuasca are known as ayahuasqueros.
Meet the 'Witch Doctor Sheriff' of Beaufort County. Meet James Edwin McTeer. Born in nearby Hardeeville in 1903, “Ed” McTeer became sheriff of Beaufort County on Feb. 11, 1926, at the age of ...
While inside the isolation tank, Homer gets bored and starts singing "Witch Doctor" by Armenian-American singer Ross Bagdasarian Sr. aka David Seville. According to Mike Scully, the Simpsons staff had to pay the song's record company $100 000 for the rights to use the tune in the episode. [1]
Modern academic historians of witch-hunts generally consider medical explanations unsatisfactory [citation needed] in explaining the phenomenon and tend to believe the accusers in Salem were motivated by social factors — jealousy, spite, or a need for attention — and that the extreme behaviors exhibited were "counterfeit ...
Albularyo or albulario is a Filipino term for a witch doctor, folk healer or medicine man, derived from Spanish herbolario (herbalist). [1] They practice folk medicine and use medicinal plants in their trade. [2]
Service records that he came out of a stone dyke, more than once, without reference to anything unusual. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] On their first meeting she had been crying and at a total loss with worry for a cow had died, her new born was a sickly child, she was still weak from her child birth exertions and finally her husband was taken with 'land ill ...