“Wise Woman” exhibit of cunning folk practise on display at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, N. Cornwall, UK.
Further Reading:
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A regional and comparative study by Alan MacFarlane
Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davis
Image Credits:
A photograph of the cunning woman in her house, at the Museum of Witchcraft by Midnightblueowl
Davies, Owen. Popular Magic: Cunning Folk in English History. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
Raine, James. Depositions from the Castle of York, Relating to Offenses Committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century. England: Pub. for the Society by F. Andrews, 1861.
MacFarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England : A Regional and Comparative Study. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Mendez, Agustin. “To Accommodate the Earthly Kingdom to Divine Will: Official and Nonconformist Definitions of Witchcraft in England (ca. 1542–1630).” Preternature 6, no. 2 (2017): 278-309. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/preternature.6.2.0278.
Games, Alison. Witchcraft in Early North America. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
Pearl, Jonathan L. “Witchcraft in New France in the Seventeenth Century: The Social Aspect.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 4, no. 2 (1977): 41-55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298699.
Pelchat, André. “Sorcery in New France,” Canada’s History, December 2015 – January 2016, 50-54.
