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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. [10]
The terms "cunning man" and "cunning woman" were most widely used in southern England, the Midlands, and in Wales. [9] Such people were also frequently known across England as "wizards", "wise men" or "wise women", [9] or in southern England and Wales as "conjurers" [9] or as "dynion hysbys" in the Welsh language. [10]
In feminist spiritual circles, a "Croning" is a ritual rite of passage into an era of wisdom, freedom, and personal power. [3]According to scholar Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the Crone is "the one who sees far, who looks into the spaces between the worlds and can literally see what is coming, what has been, and what is now and what underlies and stands behind many things.
A Gaelic name meaning “little king”—or, if it’s for a lady, queen. 15. Jordan. This unisex name of Hebrew origin means “one who descends” or “to flow down” (i.e., like the namesake ...
Balthazar (also spelled Balthasar, Balthassar, or Baltazar), from Akkadian 𒂗𒈗𒋀 Bel-shar-uzur, meaning "Bel protects the King" is the name commonly attributed to Balthazar (magus), one of the Three Wise Men, at least in the west. Though no names are given in the Gospel of Matthew, this was one of the names the Western church settled on ...
Pohl comments that Gambara lived in a world and era where prophecy was important, and not being a virgin like Veleda, she combined the roles of priestess, wise woman, mother and queen. [62] Her name may mean "wand-bearer" (*gand-bera [48] or *gand-bara [52]) with the same meaning as Old Norse vǫlva, [61] [52] while the name of her son Ibor ...
Láukun 老君 (old lord), is a common Hokkien term for Doctor influenced by Taoism and is mainly used in Southeast Asia but can also mean wise man. Dàfū 大夫 (great man), an older title used to address high officials in ancient times, now used colloquially when addressing a doctor. Xiānshēng 先生 (born before) historical, no longer used.
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