title: Wise Woman
text: # Wise Woman
  
  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
  