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Provider of prophecies or insights
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Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy
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Coral Gardens and Their Magic
Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
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Related articles
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Purity and Danger
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Major theorists
Augustin Calmet
Akbar S. Ahmed
Talal Asad
Joseph Campbell
Mary Douglas
Émile Durkheim
Arnold van Gennep
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
James Frazer
Clifford Geertz
Robin Horton
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Robert Marett
Roy Rappaport
Saba Mahmood
Marshall Sahlins
Melford Spiro
Stanley Tambiah
Victor Turner
Edward Burnett Tylor
Daniel Martin Varisco
Anthony F. C. Wallace
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