Cursed Britain by Thomas Waters
Author:Thomas Waters
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300221404
Publisher: Yale University Press
9. Many magicians cured witchcraft, or were willing to try. In Scotland, a ‘spae wife’ was a woman who sold or traded occult services including fortune telling and witchcraft cures.
10. The wise-woman of Ilchester, Somerset, charming away foot-and mouth-disease among cattle.
11. The last cunning-folk. Evan Griffiths, a Welsh conjuror (top), and George Pickingill (below), an Essex cunning-man, were among the last of Britain’s traditional cunning-men, who made their living by selling Christianity-infused white magic. Their craft waned for many reasons, but mostly because the British state waged war on ‘quackery’ during the early twentieth century. From around the 1980s, neo-pagans selectively revived the cunning-craft, minus its historic Christian components.
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