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Wise Woman usually refers, often in the context of pre-modern European peasantry, to:

• Folk healer
• Midwife

Wise Woman may also refer to:

Ethnographic examples

• Wise woman among the Sami

Individuals

• Gouyen, Apache for "wise woman", a 19th-century Native American figure
• Agnes Sampson, known as the Wise Wife of Keith, involved in the North Berwick Witch Trials

In fiction

• A character in fantasy series The Wheel of Time

Other uses

• One of the cunning folk
• A type of white witch
• Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, a Jungian archetype
• Crone, a literary archetype

See also

• The Lost Princess (1875), a fairy tale novel by George MacDonald, first published as The Wise Woman: A Parable
• The Wise Woman of Hoxton, a 17th-century play
• Wise woman of Abel, an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible
• Woman of Tekoa, also called a wise woman in the Hebrew Bible