Just days into the new year, Peruvian shamans have already seen one of their annual predictions materialize. A group of shamans gathered in Peru’s capital, Lima, on Monday for their annual ritual to ...

In an era when Lake Baikal's Olkhon Island, the spiritual heartland of Russia's shaman community, is flooded by tourists, and locals have learned to milk money from them, a full-on war is raging among ...

The Hmong traditionally believe that if the body is sick, the soul is sick. So to heal the body, you must first heal the soul. Additionally, many Hmong were distrustful of western practices across the ...

Peruvian Shamans Predict Maduro's Fall, Continued Global Conflicts in 2026 LIMA, Peru (AP) — A group of shamans gathered Monday by the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital, Lima, to carry ...

Physician Christopher Herndon explores how Amazon shamans diagnose and treat disease. Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive ...

In this exclusive excerpt from Kenn Harper’s new book, the Arctic historian explores tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist — and sometimes clash — in the 19th and 20th ...

The view is dizzying from the row of small huts that dot one of the mountainsides surrounding Bolivia’s capital. Inside the precarious structures, Aymara shamans pray to the Andean gods to protect ...