Celts

Celts – Prehistoric Indo-European Iron Age tribes that lived in preRoman northwest Europe and colonized Europe west of the Danube from around 1000 BCE; also,…

Cave art

Cave art – European Paleolithic painted and engraved rock art imagery, especially in the caves of France (such as Lascaux) and Spain (such as Altamira),…

Carson, David

Carson, David – Creator of “Medicine Cards,” a style of Tarot deck that uses illustrations of animals, especially those indigenous to North America and of…

Caribbean

Caribbean – A variety of practices evolved in the Caribbean interaction of indigenous-, African-, European-, and Asian-derived religious traditions. Some of these (e.g., Comfa, Myal,…

Cannibalism

Cannibalism – The seemingly ubiquitous fear of cannibalism is expressed in many similar myths and allegations about cannibals in many cultures. Shamans may be expected…

Campbell, Alan T.

Campbell, Alan T. – Anthropologist (then at Edinburgh University) whose book Getting to Know Waiwai (1995) is a reflexive ethnography of the Wayapí of Amazonia.…

Calderon, Eduardo

Eduardo Calderon- Peruvian shaman studied by Douglas Sharon, whose practices stand at the interface of indigenous shamanisms and neo-shamanisms. SOURCE: Historical Dictionary of Shamanism by…