that's very popular here in our country especially in the provinces where such cultures are being preserved. I won't deny the fact that I once was rushed to a shaman for my dislocated shoulder when I was young. I don't know yet how or what kind of "power" manifested during that time but the thing is, I was healed. Just to mention, aside from these shamanic healers, we also have what we known as the "faith healer" (sometimes regarded as the 'fake healer'). This of course, deals with religious belief - the main factor for healing.... ? (I'm not promoting either of the two anyway...). :)

Yes，We have a lot of these magic supernatural phenomenon in Taiwan, the most popular one is to visit the relatives who are dead, we called to view the drop-in it is also a Taoist magic, means that the living who follows the practice guidelines for the spirit or mind (not body) to go to the netherworld tourism. View drop-in is popular in Chinese's community (except the mainland China), yet nobody can prove whether the authenticity, many of Taiwan's religious like to participate in this kind of tourism, and claims its authenticity. Furthermore, some hypnotist says that the concept of drop-yin is a hypnotic phenomenon.

yes it's not tribal but a kind of a traditional spiritual background exactly a pseudo-religious traditional practice to visit the tomb of a marabout considered as a "holy man" and to make wishes..for weddings , for healing , for every thing........ a practice which is considered as a non religious behaviour by canonical religious school...yet it is still present either in rural and urban areas. the most amazing thing is that most of the population is higher in educationl level than we were 20 years ago but we see a exponential return to the mystic..for the sake of healing i think we have bad doctors........."kidding" to be honest i heard that sometimes it works..and of course can't give a precise statistical answer..

Hi Jura. Tribal societies had vanished a long time ago in my country. There is no one preserved. But just for the sake of discussion, I'd like to imagine that maybe I would've sort of scared to death and gone blank listening voices rising like the ghosts from hell. They would've eaten me alive.Ah.. ;)

not in my city, i think it may be more popular in rural places , and usually -for these rare cases- people go for certain diseases that is hard to treated by medicine , or for psychological diseases , that low educated people may think it was caused by devils. any way these (shamans) are -in most cases if not all- are just fake.