Cunning Folk av Tabitha Stanmore

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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 EnglandIt¿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, as well as a commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human. ¿I adore Cunning F