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- Ethnographic examples
- Individuals
- In fiction
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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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