
Cunning Folk with Aerinn Hodges
What Magic Is This?
The Village Witch of the Popular Imagination
The term cunning folk is applied mostly to late medieval and early modern England. They were a professional class who possessed more knowledge than those around them. The village witch of the popular imagination is very much indebted to the cunning woman.
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