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Cunning Folk - Life in the Era of Practical Magic Simon Frith ── With contributions creating aIt'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 have been cunning folk: practitioners of 'service magic'. Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), these people were essential: a ubiquitous presence at a time