Wise Woman usually refers, often in the context of pre-modern European peasantry, to: Folk healer (also called cunning folk) 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