curers

Perhaps the circle of 'curers' will be complete when the coming Arab summit convenes in Libya itself.

Soccer Dad 2009

Consequently, a whole host of irregular curers, most of them with some empirical know-how, but many charlatans as well, flourished in the cities, towns, and countryside of New Spain.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Those curers that caused a person's illness to manifest itself in objects and then extract them through some sort of physical manipulation, usually by suction, were called techichinani, "those that suck."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

A near-death experience also could signal special healing powers; Ruiz de Alarcón mentions two indigenous curers who became aware of their calling through visions and dreams while gravely ill. 90 Just as in pre-Columbian times, certain people were considered to be more prone to having the "gift to heal" — la gracia de curar — or access to supernatural powers, especially those with physical defects.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

They placed the last gatherings of bark in rows for the curers, which led them farther and farther away from the shed; and thus they gradually withdrew as the sun went down.

The Woodlanders 2006

And even these enormous figures include only the fisher-folk themselves, and do not take into account the vast army of buyers, curers, dealers,

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market-gardeners.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Their involvement in human things gives them a public role as curers of diseases and inventors of nuclear weapons, as bastions of democracy and bastions of totalitarianism.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Their involvement in human things gives them a public role as curers of diseases and inventors of nuclear weapons, as bastions of democracy and bastions of totalitarianism.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

And, then these strange, strange curers -- the odd ones you know.

CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2002 2002