Wise Woman
# 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
