I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!

She has taken a prominent part in all reform movements, the abolition of slavery, the obliviation of the rum power and guarding the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, etc.

The place was jamful.

Characteristically, the shaman is a healer, a psychopomp (someone who guides the souls of the dead to their home in the afterlife), and more generally a mediator between her or his community and the world of spirits (most often animal spirits and the spirits of the forces of nature).