Shaman

Today we visited the local Shaman and listened to his words of wisdom as translated by our guide, Raul. The Shaman had a great variety of medicinal plants and even a hallucinogenic concoction they use for young shaman wanna-bes. They refused to share the hallucinogen with us, but were very happy to rub a native plants on our bug bites and scrapes. Amanda even got a tattoo by the cute young Shaman!

sha·man (shämn, sh-) n.
A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a medium between the visible world and an invisible spirit world and who practices magic or sorcery for purposes of healing, divination, and control over natural events.