faith healer in English

person who heals the sick through prayer and faith

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1. So you can see why I was open-minded about the faith healer.

2. A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around ￡000 out of desperate sick people.

3. David's aching back is cured by faith healer called GoodNews, and thereafter his soul also undergoes a transformation.

4. This guy I know really well suffered from it and went to see this faith healer and made a complete recovery.

5. 10 Grigori Rasputin (1869–19 was a Russian mystic believed by some to be a psychic and faith healer having supernatural powers.

6. In this richly drawn portrait of real-life Czech faith healer Jan Mikolášek, who cured hundreds with natural remedies only to later be prosecuted for Charlatanism, master filmmaker Agnieszka Holland shines a light on a singular, extraordinary figure and reveals the complexity of—and human susceptibility to—the political machinations of one’s times.

7. The trouble is that this alternative tradition plays into the hands of the witch doctor, the shaman, the faith healer—all those practitioners who, in place of the reassuring diploma, potted plant, and receptionist, Accoutre themselves with ethnic arcana, nonspecific aromas, and hypnotic auras, which serve to mystify the personage of said practitioner even more than the already enigmatic illness.