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  • 1Cunning — Cun ning, n. [AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See {Cunning}, a.] 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. [1913 Webster] A carpenter s desert Stands more… …

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  • 2Cunning folk in Britain — A model of a nineteenth century cunning woman in her house, at the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle in England. The cunning folk in Britain were professional or semi professional practitioners of magic active from the Medieval period through to… …

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  • 3Cunning folk — The cunning folk is an English language term referring to professional or semi professional practitioners of magic active from at least the fifteenth up until the early twentieth century. They practiced folk magic – also known as low magic –… …

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  • 4take-in — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile. Informal:… …

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  • 5The Cunning Peasant — ( Šelma sedlák in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý.Composition and reception The Cunning Peasant was written at a time when there was a lack of high quality Czech dramatic writers. In his …

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  • 6List of ThunderCats characters — The following is a list of characters that appear in the American animated series ThunderCats, its 2011 reboot, and its related media. Contents 1 Heroes 1.1 Original ThunderCats 1.1.1 Jaga 1.1.2 Lion O …

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  • 7List of Marvel Family enemies — Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following: Contents 1 Acrobat 2 Adolf Hitler 3 Amoeba Family …

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  • 8Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… …

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  • 9The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 10Witchcraft — For other uses, see Witchcraft (disambiguation). Witch redirects here. For other uses, see Witch (disambiguation). The classic image of the witch astride a besom broom …

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