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A person who professes to heal by incantations or magic figures. Shaman healers were popular in the Shāng (21st to 16th century BCE) and Zhōu (16th to 11th century BCE). By the period of the Warring States, folk doctors were more common than before, and (the legendary) Biǎn Què (Qín Yuè Rén) advocated that doctors should not treat patients who believed in shamans rather than healers. Despite this, shamanism has continued to the present.

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