Cunning folk
Village practitioners in Britain and Europe who healed, found lost things and unpicked curses, usually for a fee.
Also: cunning men, cunning women, wise women, charmers, folk healers
Cunning folk were the local specialists of post-medieval Britain and Europe: men and women who offered healing charms, located stolen goods, identified the cause of illness and sometimes broke what clients thought was a curse. Many used prayers, the Bible, almanacs and herbs, and they saw their work as Christian. Historians such as Owen Davies have shown they were common until the early twentieth century. Authorities treated them with mixed tolerance, and some were prosecuted under witchcraft or fraud laws. Their clients also accused them, at times, of causing the harm they cured. The term is a modern historians' label and overlaps with village healers elsewhere.