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   ocr: of eastern Siberia. This is not an 1 - imaginary recreation but a faithful record of a ceremony held in the late nineteenth century and described by Museum anthropologist Waldemar Jochelson. A shaman has come to heal a sick woman, whose soul has been captured by evil spirits. He has put himself into a trance by inhaling tobacco, dancing, and beating his drum. Now his soul will travel to the spirit world and do battle in order to retrieve the woman's: soul and thus restore her. His assistant holds the shaman by a chain SO that if he gets lost or trapped in the spirit world he can be pulled back ...