seiðworker

English

Alternative forms

• seidworker

Etymology

From seiðr +‎ worker.

Noun

seiðworker (plural seiðworkers)

1. (Germanic paganism) One who practices seiðr.

   Hyponym: seiðkona

   • 2003, Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism‎^[1], page 31:

     Seiðworkers engage in faring-forth, trance-journeying, for a variety of ends, including healing and divination.

   • 2005, Barbara Tedlock, The Woman in the Shaman's Body‎^[2], page 280:

     Today, as in the Nordic saga traditions of more than one thousand years ago, most seidworkers are female.

   • 2019, Ryan Smith, Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism‎^[3], unnumbered page:

     There are even acounts of seiðworkers conjuring storms, healing the sick, shapeshifting, and performing other acts best described as magical.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:seiðworker.