CUNNING FOLK: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, by Tabitha Stanmore If Siri, embodied as a real-live woman, had popped up in England a few centuries ago with access to her present range of ...

Stanmore’s new book, Cunning Folk, is full of such magical tips and colourful vignettes. Her interest is “service magic” across the 14th to 17th centuries: the sort of functional help to ...