Wise Woman
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Wise Woman usually refers, often in the context of pre-modern European peasantry, to:
Wise Woman may also refer to:
Ethnographic examples
Individuals
- Gouyen, Apache for "wise woman", a 19th-century Native American figure
- Agnes Sampson, known as the Wise Wife of Keith, involved in the North Berwick Witch Trials
In fiction
- A character in fantasy series The Wheel of Time
Other uses
- One of the cunning folk
- A type of white witch
- Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, a Jungian archetype
- Crone, a literary archetype
See also
- The Lost Princess (1875), a fairy tale novel by George MacDonald, first published as The Wise Woman: A Parable
- The Wise Woman of Hoxton, a 17th-century play
- Wise woman of Abel, an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible
- Woman of Tekoa, also called a wise woman in the Hebrew Bible