Names for Female Shamans

ASIA
Shaman, samaan: Evenk, Manchu, Tungusic languages of northeast Asia
Wu: China (Mo in the south) possibly related to buk or puk, “to divine”
Mudang (Muday): Korea (males known as paksu)
Manshin: Korea "10,000 Spirits"
Mikogami, Miko: Japan
Itako: Japan. Blind female shamans who speak to the dead
Idughan: Mongol. (male büga, buge, bö, “sorcerer” [compare Tibetan Bön])
Mkah-‘gro-ma: Tibet, “sky-walker” (pronounced kha-do-ma;
often translated as dakini < Sanskrit
Kam: Kirghiz, Uighur, various Turkic. Possibly from “to move, step, dance”
Baqshi (Bakshi): Kirghiz, central Asia "one who looks after or takes care of"
Knee Pa: Akha, northern Thailand/Burma
Hamui: Mon, Burma
Nat kadau: Burmese
Dainyal: Dardic, northern Afghanistan/Pakistan
Bakia: Garhwal Himalaya
Appiltu: ancient Babylonia
Acaaju: Abkhaz, Caucasus. "Questioner," female oracles and ritualists
Messulethe: Georgia (Caucasus). Mostly female seers who escort the dead to the underworld along a “hair bridge.”

AFRICA
Kahina: Tunisia, “prophetess” Arabic loanword to Amazigh (Berber)
Maraboute, Darwisa: North Africa. More Arabic loans.mo
Mussu: Malinke and Mande peoples, W. Africa
Saji or Lelu: Nupe, W. Africa
Bori magadja: Hausa, north Nigeria, “spirit queen”
Tungutu: Bosso, Niger River bend
Amena: Kordofan region, Sudan
Shesha: Ethiopia (ethnicity not specified)
Muvurati: Burundi and Buha, "rainmakers" (both genders)
Kicharuzi: Ha state, Heru, Burundi. Rainmaker, “one who cuts water”
Mganga, Nganga: Bantu languages of central, eastern and southern Africa
Mangadzi: Banda, central Malawi rain shrine python priestess
Makewana: Phiri, central Malawi. "mother of all children"
Mwali: Mang'anja or southern Chewa, Malawi
Sangoma: Xhosa (plural: isangoma)
Igqirha: Temba and related languages (plural: Amagqirha)
Kimbanda: Kwanyama/Ambo, south Angola

AMERICAS
Machi: Mapuche people of southern Chile (“Araucanians” in old sources)
Mambo: Afro-Haitian
Mae de santo: Brazil, African Candomblé religion
Piache: Wayúu ("Guajiras"), northern Colombia/Venezuela
Paje: Central America
Mara'akame: Huichol, Mexico (gender-neutral)
Puhakut: Comanche, Texas and southern Plains
Eem: Karok, California
Keygey: Yurok, California
Yomta: Pomo, California "Song," carries chants, ceremonies, healing.
K'uwi-ya: Yana, California
Conjure-woman, Hoodoo, Rootworker: African-American

EUROPE
Haliorunna: Ostrogothic, Ukraine "holy mysteries"
Völva or Vala: Norse, Scandanavia (plural Völur)
Spakona: Norse, “prophetic woman,” Spafara, "prophetic traveller"
> Scottish, Spaeing Woman, Spaewife, "female diviner"
Seidhkona: Norse, "trance-woman." Galdrakona, "chant-woman"
Leikur: Norse, "shapeshifter. Hamgengja, "goer-in-a-form"
Noida (noita): Saami, Finnish Noita-akka, "shaman-crone"
Strix: Latin, “screech-owl”  > Strega: Italian, Stria: Romanian (demonized)
Vyed’ma: Russian “seer, knower”
Ispiridada, visionaria: Sardinia, "inspired woman, visionary"
Shuvani (Chovihani): Romany

INDONESIA, PACIFICA, AUSTRALIA
Belian or Wadian: Dyak, Kelemantan (Borneo)
(Belian are male in Malay peninsula)
Dukun: Java. Dukun Tiban, "fallen from skies." Many types.
Sibaso: Sumatra, “the word”
Bajasa: Sulawesi (Celebes)
Babaylan: Visayan, Philippines
Catalonan: Tagalog, Philippines. Also anitera, from anito, "spirit"
Kahuna: Hawaii
Kaula Wahine: Hawaii, seer-prophetess priestess