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词条 Wise Woman
释义

  1. Ethnographic examples

  2. Individuals

  3. In fiction

  4. See also

The term "wise woman" usually refers to a folk healer or midwife, often in the context of pre-modern European peasantry.

  • A wise woman can be a type of witch
  • One of the cunning folk

It may also refer to the Jungian archetype of the Wise Old Woman.

Ethnographic examples

  • Wise woman among the Sami

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

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
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