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Cunning Folk with Aerinn Hodges

What Magic Is This?

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The Importance of Literacy for Cunning Folk

There's definitely this emphasis on literacy for many cunning folk, especially as I said later in the period we're talking about. And someone in and Bodenham who I discussed previously, she talked actively about how important reading was for her. She went to great length to the cure a grimoire for herself, have tracked a bit translated so she could read and work with them. It's really fascinating to me. Reading it was, yeah, giving cunning folk a sense of empowerment and making them look educated to clients who had come to that. There was this primitive element there too. Now, besides say something like the Bible, are there any books that come to mind that coming folk made use

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