Last of the Medicine Men

1. E1. Episode 1

   Sep 28, 2000

   Benedict Allen begins his quest in New York where he attempts to demystify the religion of voodoo.

2. E2. Episode 2

   Oct 5, 2000

   Benedict Allen visits northern Haiti with a mambo, or medicine woman, for the festival of Ogun the Warrior, where he is unwittingly watched by a witch doctor with a notorious reputation.

3. E3. Episode 3

   Oct 12, 2000

   This week Benedict Allen visits the Mentawai people on the rainforested island of Siberut in Indonesia. Under the tutelage of a young medicine man, or kerei, he tries to learn one of their sacred healing songs - knowing that if he gets the song wrong, the patient dies.

4. E4. Episode 4

   Oct 19, 2000

   Benedict Allen is led into Indonesia's Siberut forest by Amam Dirikogo, a young kerei or medicine man, and comes across a rare species of singing gibbon. Concluding his training as a kerei, he attends a cleansing ceremony, and spends a night alone on one of the country's most sacred hills.

5. E5. Episode 5

   Oct 23, 2000 · 28m

   Benedict Allen's exploration of the shamanic world takes him to Central America, where he joins a group of Huichol Indians from Mexico's western Sierra Madre on their annual pilgrimage to the desert of Wirikuta in search of the peyote cactus. A powerful hallucinogen, the Huichol believe peyote enables them to communicate with the gods.

6. E6. Episode 6

   Oct 30, 2000 · 28m

   Continuing Benedict Allen's exploration of the dramatic world of Mexican witch doctors, medicine men, and shamans. In this second part of his travels in Mexico, Benedict Allen samples peyote, the cactus revered by the Huichol Indians. A small amount of the bitter-tasting flesh gives him a rare chance to see for himself the hidden realm of the gods.

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