Wiktionary
n. (context now historical English) A witch or sorceress.
Usage examples of "cunning woman".
Tells how Suzanne, the cunning woman, came under the sway of Satan, and gave him her soul, and how she was tried and burnt, but her daughter the merry-begot was spared, for the child had been conceived on the first of May, and was sacred to God, and no one dared touch her.
She learnt it all from the witch judge, for before that she was the cunning woman and the midwife, as are so many, and nothing more.
Ju-Hai knew the cunning woman's purpose in telling Batu of his family's death.
The subtler murders-that is, the ones which are most attractive as problems-are nearly always the work of a cunning woman.
I burst into the child's room and found my nephew, the child I meant to make my heir, being treated by Isabelle and the village cunning woman with leeches and red curtains hung over his bed.