The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes
CHAPTER XIV
The medicine-man, a shaman--Remedies and cures--Powers and duties of the medicine-man--Virtue of breath--Ceremonial healing--Hereditary office--Training--Medicine-man and tigers--Magic-working--Properties--Evil always due to bad magic--Influence of medicine-man--Method of magic-working--Magical cures 178