cunning man
See also: cunningman
English
Noun
cunning man (plural cunning men)
- (now historical) A wise man or wizard; a magician.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (2012), page 172:
- Magical healing […] was the business of the cunning man, to whom the sufferer would have recourse and to whom he would normally be expected to make some form of payment.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (2012), page 172:
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