''wortcraft'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260130210911-00-⌔

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English

Noun

wortcraft (uncountable)

• (chiefly historical, but also used in some modern forms of paganism) (Knowledge of) the medical usage of worts, of herbal remedies (and related magic); herblore.
  • ✤ They were the keepers of starcraft, runecraft, lorecraft and wortcraft and they guided many through the darkness of the future and healed bodies and minds.**¹

Etymology

From wort + -craft.

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Footnotes

1. 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, →ISBN, page 16: ↩