cunning man

See also: cunningman

English

Noun

cunning man (plural cunning men)

1. (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.

See also

• cunning woman