cunning folk

English

Noun

cunning folk pl (plural only)

1. (historical) professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic (who were often charlatans) who were active from at least the 15th up until the early 20th century.

Synonyms

• (southern England and Wales) conjurers
• (Cornwall) pellars
• white witch
• wise men
• wise women
• wizards

Hyponyms

• cunning man
• cunning woman

Translations

professional or semi-professional practitioner of magic

• Belarusian: вядзьмак m (vjadzʹmak), вядзьмар m (vjadzʹmar)
• Bulgarian: вещер (bg) m (vešter)
• Czech: vědmák
• Danish: kloge folk n pl, klog mand c (male), klog kone c (female)
• Dutch: toverdokters (nl) m pl, duivelbanners m pl
• French: devins-guérisseurs m pl, leveurs de sorts m pl
• German: Hexenmeister (de) m, Kräuterhexen (de) f pl
• Hungarian: javasasszony (hu) f
• Old English: wicca m, wicce f, dry m
• Portuguese: curandeiros m pl, curandeiras f pl, benzedeiros m pl, benzedeiras f pl, mulheres de virtude f pl
• Russian: ведьмак (ru) m (vedʹmak)
• Serbo-Croatian: véštac (sh) m
• Swedish: de kloka pl klok gubbe c (male), klok gumma c (female)
• Welsh: dyn hysbys m, dynes hysbys f