The Medicine Man

There can be no biography of him. Facts are few, stories many. He seems to have been known by different names in many parts, appearing and disappearing through the years.
The 1954 version of Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, reflects the poorly grounded perceptions of the people whose use of the term "medicine man" effectively defined it for the people of that time: "a man supposed to have supernatural powers of curing disease and controlling spirits." The definition insinuates that the so-called "medicine men" falsely claim to have the power to cure disease, and falsely claim that their supposed powers have a supernatural basis. In effect, such definitions were not explanations of what these "medicine men" were to their own communities, but instead reported on the consensus of socially and psychologically remote observers when they tried to categorize these individuals.
The idea comes as a flashing lightning. In some instance I have seen all the air around me filled with tongues of living flame.
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