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[image error] Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore

A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and strangely familiar time.

Imagine:it’s 1600, and you’ve lost your keys. You’ve scoured your house. They’re nowhere to be found. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, the first port of call might very well have been cunning practitioners of “service magic.” Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), cunning folk were essential to everyd...