spaewife
Britishnoun
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This much having said, Katheline the good spaewife fell on sleep.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Ralph pondered a while, and then he said: "Is it known of others than thy spaewife that the Burgers be in Upmeads?"
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
But she was no common spaewife, this Mother Nicneven, like Jean Jopp that lived in the Bricrie-baulk.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
Ye hinna the toon mirk rubbed out your een yet, Hamish, or ye would ken the bonny spaewife.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
Now Thorveig the spaewife went to see Holmgang Bersi and told him her trouble.
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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