When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man…

New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no one has ever recovered. Kuru was on its…

— Jared Diamond

“Ghost Lore among the Tribes of New Guinea and West Sumatra,”

— Jonathan Stroud

If you say to people, 'I'm off to Papa New Guinea,' you'll often get a bad reaction - usually from people who've never been…

— Charley Boorman

“In Highland New Guinea, now Popua New Guinea, a British district officer named James Taylor contacted a mountain village, above three thousand feet, whose…

— Annie Dillard

“As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, “Life was better since the government came” because “a man…

— Steven Pinker

The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of…

— Corinne Heline

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but…

— Shana Alexander

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to…

— Archie Fire Lame Deer

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle…

— Black Elk

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been…

— Mircea Eliade

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

— Carl Jung

“One wonders who knows more about the coyote, the zoologist who is able to study its external habit and dissect its cadaver or the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

— John Dewey