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English
Noun
cunning folk pl (plural only)
- (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.
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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 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
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