[Thaumatology/Horror] Cunning folk Codes of Honor

Prince Charon · 02-20-2023, 02:49 AM

The various types of European folk magicians, historically sometimes called 'cunning folk' in English, would almost certainly have had their own codes of behavior. Most likely, they would have varied by culture and by individual, but some broad strokes might have existed. My current thinking it that more would be variants of CoH (Professional); 'protect the village from evil spirits' is probably part of most of them, along with 'do not use evil magics' and/or 'do not make deals with demons/evil spirits, save to get them to leave' (and of course, some will not deal with them at all).

I'm having some difficulty with the specifics, like how CoH (Benandanti) differs from CoH (British cunning folk), for example.

What do you think?

02-20-2023, 02:49 AM	#1
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	[Thaumatology/Horror] Cunning folk Codes of Honor The various types of European folk magicians, historically sometimes called 'cunning folk' in English, would almost certainly have had their own codes of behavior. Most likely, they would have varied by culture and by individual, but some broad strokes might have existed. My current thinking it that more would be variants of CoH (Professional); 'protect the village from evil spirits' is probably part of most of them, along with 'do not use evil magics' and/or 'do not make deals with demons/evil spirits, save to get them to leave' (and of course, some will not deal with them at all). I'm having some difficulty with the specifics, like how CoH (Benandanti) differs from CoH (British cunning folk), for example. What do you think? __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.