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2: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction

3: cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions

4: characteristic manner, method, or style <in the best liberal tradition>

2 a: simultaneous b: marked by characteristics of the present period : modern , current

2: In England, the term ‘witch’ was not used exclusively to describe malevolent magicians, but could also indicate cunning folk. “There were a number of interchangeable terms for these practitioners, ‘white’, ‘good’, or ‘unbinding’ witches, blessers, wizards, sorcerers, however ‘cunning-man’ and ‘wise-man’ were the most frequent.”

3: Sometimes known as the practice of the religion Wicca.

4: The practice of folk religion.

5: The practice of folk magick.

6: The practice of folk healing.

7: A varied nature based spiritual and magickal practice that stems from ancient European practises.

2: “superstition”; rituals to ward off the Evil Eye, curses, demons, witchcraft etc.

3: blessing of animals and crops (fertility rites), food, vehicles, buildings etc.

1: In English history, the cunning man or cunning woman is a professional or semi-professional folk magic user up until the 20th century and, to a lesser degree, to the present day. Such people were also frequently known as wizards, wise men, wise women, witch doctors or conjurers. The term white witch was infrequently used for cunning folk until recent times, except in the county of Devon.

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Merriam-Webster, answers.com, wikipedia,

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