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shaman. The medicine man or priest called a shaman takes his name in a roundabout way from the Sanskrit sram, “to ex- haust, fatigue,” perhaps in reference to the exhausting epileptic seizures such medicine men often exhibit when working their magic. The English word shaman comes from a Greek modifi- cation of the Russian modification of the Tungusic saman. Sa- man derives from the Prakrit samana, “a Buddhist monk,” which comes from the Sanskrit sram. |