A Pagan magician, priest, or shaman is referred to as Volkhv/Volkva (m/f) in Russian.
Finno-Ugric and Slavic shamans and Pagan practitioners were referred to as "shamans" in the oldest Old Russian and Slavic literature.
- The term is said to have originated in Finno-Ugric and therefore may have previously referred to a particular technique, practitioner, or tradition.
- It seems to be derived from a root word meaning "wolf," and therefore may have previously denoted a wolf-shaman or werewolf.
- In addition, the term was employed to translate the Greek word pharmakos.
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