A CANADIAN man is seen begging for his life moments before being lynched in the Peruvian rainforest after reports he killed a female shaman.

Shocking mobile phone footage appears to show Sebastian Woodroffe begging for mercy while being dragged by the neck between thatch-roofed homes, before being left motionless on the muddy ground.

8 A man believed to be Sebastian Woodroffe is shown being dragged along the ground in the Peruvian Amazon

The 41-year-old was believed to have been studying natural medicine under Olivia Arevalo Lomas, an elderly shaman who ran a healing centre offering ayahuasca - an Indigenous hallucinogenic mixture.

The 81-year-old plant healer from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe was shot dead on Thursday, with Peruvian authorities describing Woodroffe was her killer.

Woodroffe was slayed on the same day. His body was found in an unmarked shallow grave in the forest just half a mile from Arevalo's home in Victoria Gracia in North East Peru.

Ricardo Palma Jimenez, the head of the group of prosecutors in Ucayali, confirmed that the man in the video was Woodroffe and that he had been strangled to death after receiving several blows across his body.

8 Sebastian Woodroffe was killed in Peru on Thursday Credit: Instagram

8 Shaman Olivia Arevalo Lomas was shot dead Credit: Central European News

8 Footage shows the bloody body of shaman Olivia Arevalo Lomas lying on the floor

8 The 41-year-old is believed to have travelled to Peru to learn about natural medicine Credit: Facebook

Mr Jiminez said that no arrests have been made in relation to either deaths.

He told Reuters: "We will not rest until both murders, of the Indigenous woman as well as the Canadian man, are solved."

Ms Lomas's murder has prompted outrage in Peru, following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands.

Woodroffe, from British Columbia, was one of thousands of foreign tourists who travel to the Peruvian Amazon to experiment with ayahuasca, a bitter, dark-colored brew made of a mixture of native plants.

8 Distressing footage circulated on social media shows the Canadian tourist being dragged along the ground, moments before his death

8 Lomas's covered body after her death Credit: Central European News

8 No arrests have yet been made in connection with Sebastian Woodroffe's death

The hallucinogenic cocktail, also known as yage, has been used by indigenous tribes in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia as a cure for numerous ailments.

But it's also increasingly consumed by Western tourists looking for mind-altering experiences, sometimes with deadly consequences.

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Arevalo was a staunch defender of indigenous people's rights in the region.

She also practised a traditional form of singing medicine that the Shipibo believe removes negative energies from individuals and a group alike.

In 2015, a Canadian fatally stabbed a fellow tourist from England after the two drank ayahuasca together in a spiritual ceremony a few hours' drive from where Woodroffe was killed.

Funeral for Amazon healer Olivia Arevalo Lomas, after lynch mob kill Canadian Sebastian Woodroffe accused of shooting her

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