Shamans in Asia, Clark Chilson, Psychology Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-29679-3, ... It is the duty of the ojha to find this out. In Kushtia there is a custom that if anyone is bitten by a snake someone runs to the house of an ojha or a shaman with the news that a man or woman, as the case may be, has a kata gha (cut wound) ...
North Indian notes and queries, Volumes 4-5, William Crooke, Pioneer Press, 1894, ... The ceremony performed by the Ojha to discover a witch is called kansa kurthi, and much resembles the old Scotch superstition ...
The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner, Michael J. Harner, HarperCollins, 1990, ISBN 978-0-06-250373-2, ... Shamans are especially healers, but they also engage in divination, seeing into the present, past, and future for other members of the community. A shaman is a see-er ...
An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Christina Pratt, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4042-1140-7, ... A shaman is a specific type of healer who uses a trance state, or alternate state of consciousness, to enter the invisible world ...
