Historically, a Tsam ceremony was held at the beginning of the year to exorcise evil. It consisted of a series of masked dances and often had a narrative content. Tsam means masked dance. Today in ...

Every third Tuesday of the month, John Ludwig heads to the James City County Library on Croaker Road with candles, drums and an open mind. A practitioner of shamanism, the Williamsburg-area resident ...

The rites began at dawn, as they do every year on the first morning of the Mongolian spring. By noon, hundreds of faithful were gathered around the master shaman Byambadorj as he channelled the spirit ...