Meaning of wisewoman | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The fortune-teller often carries out practices that are not easily distinguishable from those of the witch, and the white witch and wisewoman maintain⟳ themselves in evidence not only by dealing with the “overlooking” so often suspected to be the work⟳ of the black witch, but by side lines of children’s diseases and as herbalists and consultants on matters which in the town fall⟳ to the beauty parlour. The wisemen are far more numerous than the witches.”

“The modern green witch finds her foremothers and forefathers in village herbalists, midwives, healers, wisewomen, and cunning-folk who performed particular services for their communities.”

“Geralt discovers she is now eking out an existence as a witch—a wisewoman stuck curing ailments of animals and peasants alike, all the while waiting for the winds of fate to blow⟳ in her favor.”

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