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Old Dickens: the link was pretty irrelevant anyway

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the link was pretty irrelevant anyway

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	The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] ~~[[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|~~witch-finder]], who had ~~fallen in~~ infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile ~~together~~. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.		The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] witch-finder, who had become infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and ~~infests~~ others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infects others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had become infatuated with a millennium ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.		Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had become infatuated with a millennium ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.
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	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).		Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

	Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before ( who also was once a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.		Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before ( who also was once a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.


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Fair Go Dibbler: Changed the location of the link, so that it was not as long. (still same link, just not over as many words)

2020-08-12T11:02:06Z

Changed the location of the link, so that it was not as long. (still same link, just not over as many words)

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	The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.		The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder]], who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

Old Dickens: missed one

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	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had become infatuated with a ~~millennia~~ ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.		Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had become infatuated with a millennium ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).		Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

Herowho at 23:15, 23 May 2020

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	The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.		The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation; otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had ~~fallen~~ infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.		Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had become infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).		Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

	Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once ~~was~~ a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.		Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before ( who also was once a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

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	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.		Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).		Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

	Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.		Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

Mare-Silverus at 13:14, 25 May 2018

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	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.		Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée [[Letitia\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).		Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

	Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.		Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

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			The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches\|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

	The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in love with a]] [[Witches\|witch]], a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]] he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his smell (for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

	Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer [[Macintosh]] from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]] and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]].

	Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing, and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son [[Roland]] and Roland’s new [[Letitia\|fiancée]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]].

	Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before, Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

			Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

			Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée [[Letitia\|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

			Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

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	The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.		The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.


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	The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] witch-finder, who had fallen in love with a [[Witches\|witch]]. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.		The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia\|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo\|witch-finder, who had fallen in love with a]] [[Witches\|witch]], a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

	This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]] he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his smell (for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.		This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]] he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his smell (for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

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	The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.		The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

	~~"Fulminating vituperation": North American readers may recognise some Fox News commentators here, as well as orators from the "Christian" right.~~

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	The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.		The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp\|Heinrich_Kramer\|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp\|Cunning_folk\|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

			"Fulminating vituperation": North American readers may recognise some Fox News commentators here, as well as orators from the "Christian" right.


	[[Category:Discworld concepts]]		[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
	[[Category:Supernatural entities]]		[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
	[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]		[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]