sadet
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French sadète, apparently from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lao.
Noun
sadet (plural sadets)
- A type of spiritual leader or witch doctor among the Jarai people of Southeast Asia.
- c. 1919, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol VII:
- The sadete who is most feared is the fire sadete, known especially by the savages of the Assamese slope; the water sadete exercises a less perceptible sway over the Laotian slope; the power of the wind sadete seems insignificant.
- 1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland 2003, p. 121:
- At Cêo-Rêo, not far from Buon Choah, are located the villages of those enigmatic personages, the Sadets, of Fire and Water, whose fearsome reputation is widespread throughout Indo-China.
- c. 1919, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol VII: