Witch doctor meaning in punjabi

/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə/

someone who is believed to heal through magical powers

ਕੋਈ ਅਜਿਹਾ ਵਿਅਕਤੀ ਜਿਸਨੂੰ ਜਾਦੂਈ ਸ਼ਕਤੀਆਂ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਚੰਗਾ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਵਿਸ਼ਵਾਸ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ

1. A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.

ਇੱਕ ਵਿਅਕਤੀ (ਅਕਸਰ ਮਰਦ) ਜੋ ਜਾਦੂ-ਟੂਣੇ ਤੋਂ ਬਚਣ ਅਤੇ ਜਾਦੂਈ ਸ਼ਕਤੀਆਂ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਚੰਗਾ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਵਿਸ਼ਵਾਸ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ; ਇੱਕ shaman.

1. At that consultation, according to the habit of a witch-doctor, he divined and announced the occasion of their attendance, and indicated the complainant, Mdungazwe, as the wizard who had caused Ranise to suffer.

2. I told the witch doctor I was in love with you / And then the witch doctor he told me what to do

3. In much of popular Western literature, the non-Western professional who attends to the relief of distress and alleviation of anxiety in his society is known by many names, none of them exactly respectful. He is a medicine man or a witch doctor, native healer or voodoo sorcerer—the "quack," so to speak, never the "doctor."

4. Review of the literature cited in the bibliography of the present paper left this author with the impression that there is indeed a very widespread institution variously labelled by Western observers with epithets such as medicine-man, shaman, witch-doctor, native healer, or with indigenous terms such as angakok (Eskimo), or mganga (Swahili).

5. Some people are so foolish as to go to a witch-doctor when they have Cows in this complaint [prematurely parting with their unborn calves]:—they give him some money, and he tells them some frivolous tale, such as that some person that wishes them bad luck, or looks upon them with an evil eye,

6. The man being led into the Cage did not strike me as a witchdoctor. Slim and tall, he was a middle-aged man with a fuzzy Afro which made him look even younger.

7. [T]he ſaid Dorothy Durent, having been with a Witch-Doctor, acknowledges upon Oath, that by his Advice, ſhe hang'd up her Child's Blanket in the Chimney, found a Toad in it at Night, had put it into the Fire, and held it there tho' it made a great and horrible Noiſe, and flaſht like Gunpowder, and went off like a Piſtol, and then became inviſible, and that by this the Priſoner was ſcorch'd and burn'd lamentably.

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