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Talking My Path: Patricia Robin Woodruff
Indigenous religions tend to be shamanic, because one becomes deeply connected to the spirits and the land. So individuals who are deeply called to this path are called “one who knows” or “wise one” in whatever language is being used. (That’s basically what shaman means, “to know.”) In Russian it would be vedma, in Ukrainian it’s vid’ma, Polish wiedzma (although czarownica has become more popular, because the “wise one,” the witch, has been so maligned), and in Hungary you would use boszorkány.
Author Patricia Robin Woodruff (Boyana), MDiv, PhD. 