Walter Alarcón, sorcerer and president of the International Organisation of Shamans and Healers of Peru, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Walter Alarcón, sorcerer and president of the International Organisation of Shamans and Healers of Peru, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Peruvian shamans gather to make 2023 prophesies

  • In Peru, shamans see end of Russia-Ukraine war in 2023, but ‘many dead’ in natural disasters in North America
  • The shaman ceremony, atop a sacred hill in Peru’s capital, is performed every year in late December

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Updated: 12:29pm, 30 Dec, 2022

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Walter Alarcón, sorcerer and president of the International Organisation of Shamans and Healers of Peru, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Walter Alarcón, sorcerer and president of the International Organisation of Shamans and Healers of Peru, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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