Meanings
nouncunning man (plural cunning men)
plural cunning men
- historicalA wise man or wizard; a magician.
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, published 2012, page 172
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