Definitions
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- noun A
Korean shaman , usuallyfemale , who acts asintercessor between agod or gods andhuman beings .
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Examples
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Wear a woolen scarf over her head and crash the kut, pretending to be a friend of the mudang, the female shaman, who was paid to commune with the dead.
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I'd learn something about ancient Korean religious practices and I'd be able to observe a famous Korean mudang firsthand.
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The mudang continued her dance, eyes closed as if in a trance.
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Amazingly, the mudang maintained her balance and hopped back a few steps, still holding the knife.
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Soon the other women took their seats as my partner, Ernie Bascom, and the mudang, Widow Po, swirled around the entire floor.
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The exhausted mudang collapsed, the muscles in her legs like straw.
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A G.I. who -- so the mudang claimed -- had been dead for twenty years.
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