The phrase "a cunning man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is clever, skillful, or deceitful in achieving his goals.
Example: "The cunning man devised a plan that outsmarted everyone in the room."
Alternatives: "a sly man" or "a crafty man".
And yet even though Sandusky denies the charges, Lucas has been convinced otherwise by the 23-page grand jury report that portrays Sandusky as a predator, a cunning man adept at using his charity — the Second Mile — to find boys to sexually assault.
The first printed account of Pickingill that described him as a cunning man appeared fifty years after his death.
However, claims have since been made that Pickingill was not a cunning man or involved in folk magic at all.
For his personal gains, "Savadal" Vaithi (Nagesh), a cunning man, befriends the Maharaja of Madhanpur (M. N. Nambiar), who is the programme's chief guest.
Supporting this position, she highlighted that there was no evidence to suggest that Pickingill was a cunning man prior to Maple's publications.
The former was actually a very cunning man who played a somewhat controversial part in the history of Britain.
In the 1970s, the occultist E.W. "Bill" Liddell began publicising claims that secretive hereditary witch families had informed him that Pickingill was not simply a rural cunning man but that he was a major figure in the nineteenth-century esoteric community.
"A very cunning man; if we try to demonize him, we're going to lose".
Proceeding to focus on 19th- and 20th-century examples, Merrifield discusses the case of James Murrell, an English cunning man, and his involvement with the witch bottle tradition.
According to Maple, Pickingill was sufficiently well known in Essex as an accomplished cunning man that people came to visit him from outside the village of Canewdon in search of magical aid, sometimes "from great distances", including men from the Essex village of Dengie, who sought his advice in a wage dispute.
