LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian shamans gathered on Monday for a blessing ritual for the two candidates in the country’s ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - With statues of the Buddha and local gods, candles and incense sticks, Lee Kyoung-hyun's shrine looks similar to those of Korean shamans from centuries past. But the 29-year-old ...

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 ...

Users of a fashionable “detox” treatment involving a drug known as Kambo have been urged to steer clear of self-appointed “shamans” peddling the potentially deadly therapy.

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Hmong shaman blesses a pregnant woman so that she will have a safe birth. (Photo: Shuka Kalantari) A Hmong shaman dressed in an ornate red and pink costume is standing in a crowded living room in ...

BOGOR, Indonesia — The shaman took hold of my little finger, mumbled in Arabic, then pronounced his diagnosis for the mysterious malaise that had plagued me for months. “You have walked over a grave ...