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Cunning Folk with Aerinn Hodges

What Magic Is This?

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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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