Living
Merry May 2026!
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The Wild Hunt wishes all of our readers a blessed turning of the wheel, as the northern hemisphere celebrates Beltane, the southern celebrates Samhain, and around the world we celebrate May Day.
Arts & Culture
Practical Advice for Discerning “Cunning Folk”
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Ed Simon reviews Tabitha Stanmore’s new book, “Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic.” “Stanmore enumerates the sorts of practical rituals that cunning folk offered in the plying of their trade. A thief might be discovered, for example, by making suspects eat chunks of cheese in which various charms had been carved, whereupon the guilty party would choke on their morsel. (This must be hard cheese, Stanmore emphasizes.)”