[Vocation] Consider Becoming Your Neighborhood Dreamer

Listen to the voice of those around you and make moves to sing the songs they’ve forgotten about but which live in their hearts.

“Common people regularly performed their own magic spells and rituals, but when greater experience was needed they turned to magical practitioners, who were known by the interchangeable terms wise man or woman, cunning man or woman, witch (white or black), wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, blesser, dreamer and so on. These practitioners mostly came from the less educated or wealthy sectors of the population, but a significant minority of them were literate and even possessed magical manuals.[8] Like witches, cunning folk seem to have often employed the services of spirits and familiars in their work, and indeed it is difficult to clearly differentiate cunning folk from ‘witches’, a distinction that was often blurred in the early modern period. While some cunning folk were considered wholly good, many more were seen as ambivalent and regarded with a degree of fear.”

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  1. USR01
    Posted December 11, 2008 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    Cunning-folk were the multi-faceted practitioners of the occult arts, who, from as early as the sixteenth century, were to be found living in or around towns and villages across the country. Most of them specialised in detecting and removing the malevolent effects of witchcraft. In this role people turned to them when they became sick of mysterious, untreatable illnesses, or had animals ill, demanding some idea of who had bewitched them and what they might do to break the spell. Cunning-folk were popularly known variously as conjurors, cunning-men and women, witch-detectors, wise-men and women, and wizards. In Cornwall, from the 1850s onwards, the word Peller was also used to describe them, which was a Cornish dialect word, mostly restricted to the far west. They also offered a wider occult service besides witch-detection, such as fortune telling, divination in its various forms for the finding of lost or stolen goods, reading palms, and they also dabbled a little in the charming of common skin diseases. Some offered skills as herbalists. As they were offering a service, using the skills and powers that they had learned and acquired, conjurors charged for their expertise, usually anything from a few shillings to a few pounds, depending on the service provided.

    http://www.cornishwitchcraft.com/Cornish%20Cunning-folk.htm
    http://www.cornishwitchcraft.com/Charmers.htm

  2. USR01
    Posted December 11, 2008 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    I intend to find someone to teach me these arts:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traiteur

    In French Acadiana, the term Traiteur (sometimes spelled Treateur) describes a man or woman who has learned the what is sometimes called faith healing. A traiteur is Cajun healer, or else a traditional healer of the French-speaking Houma Tribe, whose primary method of treatment involves using the laying on of hands. An important part of Cajun folk religion, the traiteur combines Catholic prayer and medicinal remedies. They are called to treat a variety of ailments, including: earaches, toothaches, warts, tumors, angina, and bleeding. In the past, they substituted for trained physicians in remote rural areas of Acadiana. Most traiteurs consider their healing abilities a gift from God, and therefore refuse to accept payment in exchange for their services.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_science

  3. USR01
    Posted December 11, 2008 at 9:45 pm | Permalink

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow-wow_(folk_magic)

  4. USR01
    Posted December 11, 2008 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachay
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curandero
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_doctor

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