Seydr
The Seidr ( seiðr ), which means boiling literally, effervescence , indicates a whole of shamanic practices specific to the Scandinavian religions.
The Seidr implies fright and aims at boring the intentions of the Nornes in order to know the destiny (Wyrd or orlög), or to change Shaman into animal. In the legend, it is Freyja which taught this magic with the Ases. If one believes of it the Lokasenna (text where Loki calumny gods until the intervention of Thor), Seidr was a magic activity rather reserved to the women, but that Odin practiced assiduously.
The transformation into animal consists in exchanging its hamr (substance which gives its form to the body) with that of an animal by the force of concentration.
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