curandero

From Spanish curandero.

curandero (plural curanderos or curanderoes)

1. A traditional Central American healer.
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 36:

     It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.

• curandera

• curandero on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Spanish curandero.

curandero m (plural curanderos)

1. quacksalver, shaman, witch doctor
2. curandero

• “curandero” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

curandero m (plural curanderos, feminine curandera, feminine plural curanderas)

1. shaman, witch doctor
2. quack: one who practices medicine without authority.
3. healer