A rare, literary term for a person who communicates with spirits or gods, often in a traditional East Asian context. The kanji 巫 refers to a female shaman and 覡 to a male shaman, but the compound is used generically.
This document describes the rituals of shamans in detail.
Sino-Japanese compound of 巫 (female shaman) and 覡 (male shaman). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word appears in classical Chinese texts and was adopted into Japanese with the same meaning.
