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  2. Faith healing - Wikipedia

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    Skeptics of faith healers point to fraudulent practices either in the healings themselves (such as plants in the audience with fake illnesses), or concurrent with the healing work supposedly taking place and claim that faith healing is a quack practice in which the "healers" use well known non-supernatural illusions to exploit credulous people ...

  3. Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...

  4. Traditional African medicine - Wikipedia

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    The traditional healer provides health care to the rural communities and represents him/herself as an honorable cultural leader and educator. An advantage of the traditional healer in rural areas is that they are conveniently located within the community. Modern medicine is normally not as accessible in rural areas because it is much more costly.

  5. Traditional medicine - Wikipedia

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    Healers within indigenous communities go by many names ranging from medicine man or woman to herbalist or even shaman and are considered spiritual or religious leaders within their respective tribes. [35] When it comes to healing, tribal healers would look at a plant's characteristics to determine its efficacy for the treatment of an illness. [36]

  6. Category:Faith healers - Wikipedia

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  7. Traiteur (faith healer) - Wikipedia

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    In Louisiana, the term traiteur (sometimes spelled treateur) describes a man or woman (a traiteuse [1]) who practises what is sometimes called faith healing.A traiteur is a Creole (or Cajun) healer or a traditional healer of the French-speaking Houma Tribe, whose primary method of treatment involves using the laying on of hands.

  8. Gifts of healing - Wikipedia

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    In Christian theology, the Gifts of healing are among the spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12. As an extraordinary charism , gifts of healing are supernatural enablements given to a believer to minister various kinds of healing and restoration to individuals through the power of the Holy Spirit . [ 1 ]

  9. Lazarus of Bethany - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem is an order of chivalry that originated in a leper hospital founded by Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century by Crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Sufferers of leprosy regarded the beggar Lazarus (of Luke 16:19-31) as their patron saint and usually dedicated their hospices to him. [72]