weathermaker
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
weathermaker (plural weathermakers)
- 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 […]