"wattipa" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Yao (South America)]

Head templates: {{head|sai-yao|noun}} wattipa
  1. a kind of spirit with which shamans were said to converse and from which they learned of events in remote times and places, but by which they were also often harmed
    Sense id: en-wattipa-sai-yao-noun-5gNNZQlq Categories (other): Yao (South America) entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII (in Latin), page 642",
          "text": "[…] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.",
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