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Feb 22, 2012 17:51
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français term

Coupeur de feu

français vers anglais Autre Ésotérisme Coupeur de feu
Bonjour,

Comment traduire "Coupeur de feu" en anglais ?

Merci de votre aide,
flore

Discussion

Flore Bargain (asker) Feb 23, 2012:
Some do in France...
philgoddard Feb 22, 2012:
Hospitals don't use faith healers!
Flore Bargain (asker) Feb 22, 2012:
hi! I did understand but it is actually a job title which appears on the business card - so, no other sentence that could help!
thank you for your help !
philgoddard Feb 22, 2012:
I don't think you've understood what Alison means by context. She means we need the sentence containing this phrase, and ideally the sentences before and after it. It appears to be a job title, some kind of faith healer, and radiesthetics means the claimed ability to detect "radiation" emanating from the body.
Flore Bargain (asker) Feb 22, 2012:
also called "barreur de feu"
Flore Bargain (asker) Feb 22, 2012:
it's an advertisement for a radiesthetic healer... a "coupeur de feu" is sometimes used in hospitals to decrease the pain caused by chemotherapy's side effects
thks !
Alison Sparks (X) Feb 22, 2012:
Context??? Fire break is usual, but depends on the context.

Proposed translations

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Burn healer

Here are a couple of web pages were the term is used. The first one is a bilingual version of a document describing these healers.
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Fire talker or Fire healer

Apparently, we are called Fire talkers although I have always translated it as a Fire healer. I prefer to put a capital letter to the word Fire because it does not relate to just healing simple burns but perhaps also to healing the Fire of ignorance in general. I also sometimes refer to it as a psychic healer. Usually these people can also find water -- which is very handy! They also tend to be psychic and with regular yoga practice or other Chi related exercises they can become clairvoyants. A Fire talker does not transmit his secret to just anybody -- unlike a faith healer -- since it should not fall into the wrong hands. A Fire talker is no one special: they are mostly sockets through which electricity passes, but in no way they can claim to be the electricity. Being a Fire talker is considered to be a gift and therefore one should not charge for their services.
I also come from a faith healing tradition on my father's side and this is less of a secret. In fact, you can find many of these Christian related prayers on the Internet and, if you have faith, you can be one too.
Being both types of healer in a very sceptical world, where even some people who admit to have been healed still don't believe, the best is to use it to improve yourself and try to become a translator instead.



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Folk healer, traditional healer (oral tradition)
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