sadet

• sadete

From French sadète, apparently from Lao.

sadet (plural sadets)

1. A type of spiritual leader or witch doctor among the Jarai people of Southeast Asia.
   • c. 1919, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, volume 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, published 2003, page 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.

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