Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book review)

Folklore;  August 1, 2006 ;     613 words ...Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History. By...study examines the liminal world of cunning folk in England. It follows a welcome trend...certainly more complex, and the term cunning folk has become quite widely used in both...

Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary...

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...EMMA WILBY, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic...Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 317. Emma Wilby's Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits is a bold...beyond the scope of one's text. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, then, begins...

"How do you know she's a witch?": Witches, cunning folk, and competition...

Western Folklore;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......changed considerably. While one might expect that kluge folk (cunning folk) who, because of their abilities to cure illness and remove...that this later use of the term "witch" in connection with cunning folk was connected to the market for healer-while using the label...

Hmm..feisty nature, prone to taking her clothes off..let me seen now .....

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 11, 2005 ;     57 words ......Louis Vuitton store sporting headgear that resembled the Sorting Hat from JK Rowling's novels about the boy wizard. The hat sorts Hogwarts' pupils into houses - with shrewd and cunning folk sent to Slytherin CAPTION(S): SORTED: Harry with the hat

Hmm..feisty nature, prone to taking her clothes off.. let me see now .....

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 11, 2005 ;     57 words ......Louis Vuitton store sporting headgear that resembled the Sorting Hat from JK Rowling's novels about the boy wizard. The hat sorts Hogwarts' pupils into houses - with shrewd and cunning folk sent to Slytherin CAPTION(S): SORTED: Harry with the hat

3pm: Curse Of The World Cup Car adverts?(Sport)

The Mirror (London, England);  July 6, 2002 ;     63 words ......salesman Thierry Henry's red card against Uruguay and Fiat flogger Francesco Totti's dismissal v South Korea? Well, those cunning folk at Hyundai have dodged the hoodoo by choosing someone we can safely say is likely to have no future contact with the FIFA...

Will top man Kershaw make a welcome return to the Tote? TALKING...

The Racing Post (London, England);  June 3, 2008 ;     168 words ......before it all goes wrong, can he?). I always suspected he was being wound up to do something for 'racing's benefit' by more cunning folk who kept a lower profile. With his wider range of experience, and outstanding customer service ethos, he will be back - who...

Revels tackles immigration.(Arts and Lifestyle)

The Boston Herald;  May 6, 2001 ;     469 words ......multiculturalism in the dictionary. It's also a subject that allows the Revels to engage in what they always do well: Tell the cunning folk tales and sing the glorious songs of a multitude of ethnic groups. The new Spring Revels show, devoted to the sea journey...

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book Review)

Albion;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Owen Davies. Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History...ISBN 1-85285-297-6. Owen Davies' Cunning-Folk is a much-needed study of the popular...around 1500 to the twentieth century. Cunning-folk (literally, wise or knowing people...

Charmers and charming in England and Wales from the Eighteenth to the...

Folklore;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......magical practitioners known variously as cunning-folk, conjurors, and white witches. This...discusses them in the same context as cunning-folk and includes them in his observations on the status, function and activities of cunning-folk. In Thomas's index, for example, the...

"Whyler pystry": a breviate of the life and folklore-collecting practices...

Folklore;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of illness as arising from ill-wishing and of its cure by cunning-folk were fast disappearing. Today, he is largely forgotten as...his folklore collecting and attitudes to witch beliefs and cunning-folk, mainly in the context of his publications, an annotated...

Horrors of the hairdo mob.(Review)

The Evening Standard (London, England);  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......dignified silence. Sadly, this is not the view taken by those entrusted with filling up the schedules for Sunday night. These cunning folk know that a Sunday night television audience is the easiest one of the week. We are weak from the strenuous efforts of another...

Let's keep the real evil spirit alive

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 31, 2004 ;     571 words ......children were for Hallowe'en. A plump 56 lb kiddy in a low oven would fill the gingerbread house with a delicious aroma for us cunning folk returning from a hard night's revelling with His Satanic Majesty. And look at the junk they're filling the shops with in...

JAMAICA-CULTURE: PUTTING CHILDREN IN TOUCH WITH THEIR HERITAGE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ......director. The program features local presenters Joan Andrea Hutchinson and Steve Higgins, who weave magical tales of the cunning folk hero Anansi, the prankster spider who has been at the heart of Jamaican folklore for centuries, for children between the...

Books received for review.

Folklore;  December 1, 2003 ;     557 words ......Petterson. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 200 pp. US $18.00 (pbk). ISBN 1 57806 385 X. Davies, Owen. Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. 256 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1 85285...