seiðworker

plural seiðworkers · alternative seidworker

1. GermaniclifestyleOne who practices seiðr.

   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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   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

   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