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Shamanism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13750a.htmA vague term used by explorers of Siberia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to designate not a specific religion but a form of savage magic or science, by which physical nature was believed to be brought under the control of man.
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