Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

This fascinating and engaging social history of magic transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life's day-to-day problems - as well as some of deadly importance. In medieval and early modern Europe, when faced with problems, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane. Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, this is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian.