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unusual facts about Galactic Pot-Healer


Nick and the Glimmung

It is set on "Plowman's Planet" (Sirius Five), in the same continuity as his adult SF novel, Galactic Pot-Healer.


Alma Luz Villanueva

Her maternal grandmother, a Yaqui Indian curandera/healer (as was her mother) from Sonora, raised her in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Barbara Meislin

Barbara Meislin (known as the Purple Lady of Tiburon) is an American author, singer, philanthropist, and healer, known locally in the town of Tiburon, California for a devotion to things colored purple.

Belizaire the Cajun

It chronicles the story of Belizaire Breaux, a village healer (traiteur) in Acadiana in 1859, who becomes entangled in a violent conflict between Cajuns and the new Anglophone arrivals to Southwest Louisiana.

Bladud

Eighteenth century Bath architect John Wood, the Elder wrote about Bladud, and put forth the fanciful suggestion that he should be identified with Abaris the Hyperborean, the healer known from Classical Greek sources.

Clara Elisabeth of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

She experienced an improvement in her health on 13 July 1681, when she was blessed by the miracle healer Marco d'Aviano.

Damouré Zika

Zika was the son of a Zarma speaking traditional healer and fisherman, near the town of Ayorou on the Niger River.

David Oyedepo

On September 27, 1954 David Olaniyi Oyedepo was born in Osogbo but is a native Omu Aran, Kwara into a religiously mixed family: his father,Ibrahim,was a Muslim healer and his mother, Dorcas, was a member of the Eternal Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement (C&S), a branch of the Aladura movement in Nigeria.

Etal Castle

Sir Robert de Manners performed one of the earliest English translations from the Arabic of the Taqwim al-Sihhah, an 11th-century medical text by Ibn Butlan, and was known throughout the region as a healer.

Jes Bertelsen

From 1978 to the early 1980s Jes Bertelsen was in an ongoing training with the Irish healer Bob Moore, whose understanding of the human energy system had roots in the theosophical tradition.

Johann Bessler

An alchemist instructed him on the fabrication of elixirs and he found work as a healer.

John Lake

John G. Lake (1870–1935), businessman, missionary, and faith healer

Johnny Moses

Johnny Moses is a Tulalip Native American master storyteller, oral historian, healer and spiritual leader.

Kloka Anna i Vallåkra

Anna Jönsdotter (1820-1896), known as Kloka Anna i Vallåkra (Wise Anna of Vallåkra) or Vallåkraflickan (The Vallåkra Girl), was a Swedish cunning woman and natural healer.

Maral Boyadjian

As such, she is an EFT Emotion Freedom Therapist, a Yoga Instructor, a Master Healer in Shambala and a Pranic Psychotherapist in Pranic Healing all of which derive from Eastern therapies based on nurture, kindness and love.

Mary Simpson

Mary Elizabeth Simpson (1865–1948), New Zealand religious teacher, healer and writer

Moremi, Botswana

The 2004 documentary film Seance Reflections, directed by Richard Werbner, documents a childless couple who try to recover their well-being by consulting a charismatic diviner and healer in the village of Moremi.

Old Botanical Garden, Zürich

The Gessner garden shows 50 medicinal plants (herbs and shrubs), used by 16th century's healers, each with a citation of a healer from that period, such as Cynara cardunculus, Potentilla erecta, Linum usitatissimum, Paeonia officinalis, Silybum marianum, Juniperus communis, Fragaria vesca, Artemisia absinthium and more.

Pomo religion

The indigenous religion of the Pomo people, Native Americans from Northwestern California, centered on belief in the powerful entities of the 'Kunula', a Coyote, and 'Guksu', a spirit healer from the south.

Ritual of oak and mistletoe

Pliny makes allusions to the moon on its sixth day, a waxing crescent moon, as an instrument of healing: here again there is corroborative evidence in that Celtic goddesses associated with healing and regeneration are sometimes depicted wearing lunar amulets; and the great temple of the healer-goddess Sulis Minerva at Bath, Somerset bears a carving of the Roman moon-goddess Luna.

Robert A. Silverman

He has also acted in the Friday the 13th: The Series episodes "Hate On Your Dial" and "Faith Healer" (directed by Cronenberg), and acted with him in Jason X.

Sobek

After his association with Horus and consequent adoption into the Osirian triad of Osiris, Isis, and Horus in the Middle Kingdom, Sobek became associated with Isis as a healer of the deceased Osiris (following his violent murder by Set in the central Osiris myth).

The Embarrassment

Several of The Embarrassment's unreleased songs were recorded by Big Dipper, including "Faith Healer," which was later covered by Japanese all-girl group Shonen Knife.

This Is Our God

On 21 August 2008, Michael Guglielmucci, the composer of the track "Healer", a song about his cancer struggle, admitted he had lied about ever having cancer.

Time, the Healer

Time, The Healer is a 10 track debut album by None the Less which is due to be released in March 2010.

W. V. Grant

1987: Chicago Tribune religion writer Bruce Buursma reported the experiences of one of Randi's fellow investigators, Andrew A. Skolnick, who was twice "healed" by Grant and once by televangelist faith healer Peter Popoff.

Wounded healer

In Greek mythology, the centaur Chiron was a "Wounded Healer", after being poisoned with an incurable wound by one of Hercules's arrows.

Yves Rocher

A local healer taught him the recipe for a hemostatic ointment based on the lesser celandine flower, and he decided to sell the ointment by mail order with adverts in the magazine Ici Paris.

Zika

Damouré Zika (1923–2009), Nigerien traditional healer, broadcaster and film actor


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