seiðworker

noun

seiðworker

noun

Etymology From seiðr + worker.

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Lifestyle, Paganism, Religion 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:

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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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