Hedge wizard

Hedge wizard       (also seen as hedge-wizard ) was a title given to certain spellcasters. Other forms of this appellation were hedge-witch, hedge-priest, and hedge-row sage.

Abilities
A hedge wizard was basically a self-taught spellcaster that could perform cantrips, make basic potions, and scribe simple scrolls. Other skills they often found useful for generating income were herbalism, minor medical procedures (splinting a broken limb, disinfecting wounds, making healing salves), and feats of slight-of-hand for entertainment.

Some hedge wizards were in fact elven high magi in disguise from the island of Evermeet.

Reputation
Sometimes a hedge wizard would be looked to for leadership in small, rural communities, and some reached a respectable level of skill in the Art, but city folk often dismissed them as bumpkins and charlatans. Hedge wizards lived modestly (and usually alone), either by choice or because magical research was expensive and explosive. Educated spellcasters often viewed them with disdain.

Origins
Hedge Wizards and Hedge Witches were from Fritz Leiber's world of Nehwon where their title was capitalized but they were still on the lowest rung of the society of spellcasters.