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Author Blain, Jenny

Title Nine worlds of seid-magic : ecstasy and neo-shamanism in north European paganism / Jenny Blain
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introducing shamanism, seir and self; The saying of the Norns; The Greenland Seeress: seir as shamanistic practice; Approaching the spirits; The journey in the mound; Re-evaluating the Witch-Queen; Ergi seimen, queer transformations?; The dance of the ancestors; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This accessible case study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-178) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shamanism -- Scandinavia -- Miscellanea
Shamanism
Scandinavia
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203398333
0203398335
1134519168
9781134519163