In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... cunning folk provided explanations and potentially effective remedies for the troubles and physical ailments of people whose medical practitioners were at best , lucky , at worst , lethal.33 32 very special kind of male . The Devil is ...
... cunning folk provided explanations and potentially effective remedies for the troubles and physical ailments of people whose medical practitioners were at best , lucky , at worst , lethal.33 32 very special kind of male . The Devil is ...
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... cunning - folk is perhaps best illustrated in drama by Heywood's Wise - woman of Hogsdon , who recovers things lost , deals in physic , palmistry , and bawdry , and whose ' supernatural ' powers Heywood treats with skepticism ( see pp ...
... cunning - folk is perhaps best illustrated in drama by Heywood's Wise - woman of Hogsdon , who recovers things lost , deals in physic , palmistry , and bawdry , and whose ' supernatural ' powers Heywood treats with skepticism ( see pp ...
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... cunning - folk as comic material and in fact skepticism in England eventually extended to the official level by the time of the 1633 witch trials - though trials continued through the eighteenth century . The appearance of the Queen of ...
... cunning - folk as comic material and in fact skepticism in England eventually extended to the official level by the time of the 1633 witch trials - though trials continued through the eighteenth century . The appearance of the Queen of ...
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