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.
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