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Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life's day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.

A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL, author of The Ruin of All Witches

Absolutely fascinating' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

It's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.

Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, a

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 5 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781847927323
      978-1847927323
      ISBN-10 1847927327

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life's day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.

      A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL, author of The Ruin of All Witches

      Absolutely fascinating' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

      It's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.

      Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, a

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