War, law & rule

shaman

Russian explorers met the šamān, the spirit-healer of the Tungusic Evenki of Siberia; German travel books brought the word to Europe in 1698, and anthropology made it the general term for spirit-healers worldwide, in French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean.

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The road to English

From German to French, Spanish

From German to Italian

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

1650Evenki

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