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The Swedish cunning woman Gertrud Ahlgren of Gotland (1782–1874), drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve 1870. In Scandinavia, the klok gumma ("wise woman") or klok gubbe ("wise man"), and collectively De kloka ("The Wise ones"), as they were known in Swedish, were usually elder members of the community who acted as folk healers and midwives as well as using folk magic such as magic rhymes. [11]
The number of cunning folk in Britain at any one time is uncertain. Nevertheless historian Owen Davies has speculated that, based on his own research into English cunning folk (which excluded those in Scotland and Wales), that "Up until the mid nineteenth century there may have been as many as several thousand working in England at any given time."
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Loki - A cunning, shape-shifting god, sometimes benefactor and sometimes foe to the gods of Asgard. Famous as a catalyst for Ragnarök. The precise nature of Loki's being defies clear classification, as there is little detail regarding his mother, but he is at least half-giant on his father's side.
In Dogon mythology, the fox [1] is reported to be either the trickster god of the desert, who embodies chaos [2] or a messenger for the gods. [3]There is a Tswana riddle that says that "Phokoje go tsela o dithetsenya [Only the muddy fox lives] meaning that, in a philosophical sense, 'only an active person who does not mind getting muddy gets to progress in life.'
It is primarily understood by practitioners of the Powwow tradition that Powwow is an Americanized version of English "cunning craft": The Pow-Wow practitioner is more closely allied with theology than medicine and feels he is a mediator between the patient and God.
The word fox comes from Old English and derives from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. [ nb 1 ] This in turn derives from Proto-Indo-European * puḱ- "thick-haired, tail." [ nb 2 ] Male foxes are known as dogs , tods , or reynards ; females as vixens ; and young as cubs , pups , or kits , though the last term is not to be confused with the kit fox , a ...
As his name was difficult to pronounce for non-English-speaking contemporaries, there are many variations of it in the historical record. He often referred to himself as Haukevvod and in Italy, he was known as Giovanni Acuto, literally meaning "John Sharp" (or "John the Astute") in reference to his "cleverness or cunning". [1]