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Description
CUNNING-FOLK: POPULAR MAGIC IN ENGLISH HISTORY
Book Details + Condition: Hambledon and London (London). Scarce First Edition, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket. 246 pages. From the jacket: "Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but values services to the community, cunning-folk were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people every day problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from a bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife." Contents include: Cunning-folk and the Law; For Good or Evil?; Services; Books; Written Charms; European Comparisons; Cunning-folk in the 20th Century. In very good condition: bumped corners; very light shelf wear to boards; text is clean and unmarked.
