weathermaker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

weather +‎ maker

Noun[edit]

weathermaker (plural weathermakers)

  1. One who attempts to influence the weather by magic; one who performs a weathermaking ritual.
    • 1999, Felix Speiser, Ethnology of Vanuatu, page 211:
      A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]
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