a term given by the North American Indians to those persons who enjoy the special favor of their patron spirits, and are through such aid enabled to discover things that are hidden, to foretell future events, to bewitch other persons, to perform extended journeys in the soul while absent from the body, etc. — in short, the most cunning impostors in the tribes. The Iroquois equivalent for this title is Agottsinnachs, i.e. seers.