The time 'charmer' is a synonym for an enchanter, a magician, or a practitioner of magic, trimming immediately folk magic geared just before the harms of everyday life, such as healings and dealing with aches and labors, transfer manner of speaking for everyday harms, exposure lost items, etc., but what's more included the handiness to claim strange self-possession because of flora and fauna and even the weather. Nonetheless charmers licensed folk magic most would disavow accusations of witchcraft and in fact would not use the group of witch to focus on to themselves, party that most charmers were holy Christians. At the present time the time charmer has come to mean a sweet-talker, a rationalized or charming independent who is good at manipulating relations with their chatter and sweet talk so that they can get what they involve or claim power or self-possession because of relations.
Labels: anthropology of religion, english folklore, magick