cunning man

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cunning man (plural cunning men)

  1. (historical) A wise man or wizard; a magician.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 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.

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