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seiðworker en · NOUN

Etymology

From seiðr + worker.

Meanings

1. (Germanic) One who practices seiðr.
   • Seiðworkers engage in faring-forth, trance-journeying, for a variety of ends, including healing and divination. 2003, Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism, page 31:
   • Today, as in the Nordic saga traditions of more than one thousand years ago, most seidworkers are female. 2005, Barbara Tedlock, The Woman in the Shaman's Body, page 280:
   • There are even acounts of seiðworkers conjuring storms, healing the sick, shapeshifting, and performing other acts best described as magical. 2019, Ryan Smith, Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism, unnumbered page:

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