Religious leaders and shamans in remote Achham district have pledged support for government efforts to eradicate Chhaupadi-the deeply-rooted practice of isolating menstruating women-saying it is time ...

One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg, a key finding of the last hunter-gatherer groups. From a time when there were no ...

Now the ’seated woman’ or ‘shaman’ as some call her, has been expertly recreated for a new exhibit. Video by Howard Timberlake Follow BBC Reel on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube ...

“Women are at risk of being unclean.” The men nearby nodded gravely in agreement. A few hundred yards away at another sacred spot, Carolyn Drake and I encountered three female shamans ...

A shaman from central Colombia was arrested on Thursday on charges he drugged and raped at least 50 women between 2008 and 2012. Edgar Orlando Gaitan, known as “El Taita”, is accused of using his ...

South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday raided the home of the country's ex-president, Yonhap reported, as part of a probe into ...

JOHOR BARU: Two young women who sought the services of a shaman to “eliminate” bad spirits claimed that the man sexually assaulted them separately. The housemates identified only as Lim and ...

A shaman's tent is a conical structure called a yarnga and is ... it was already being applied in North America to a wide range of medicine-men and medicine-women, while some New Age practitioners ...