Seidr: The Gate is Open by Katie Gerrard has already received numerous outstanding and positive reviews from readers from all over the world. The following is an extract from a review recently (May 2011) appeared in well-known magazine The Cauldron.
“For those who do not know, seidr is a rather controversial pre-Christian Norse form of magic involving trance, prophecy, spirit contact, cursing and shape-shifting. It centres around the so-called Rite of the High Seat based on a single mention in a medieval saga of a volva or preistess-seer sitting on a high seat or raised platform and prophesising. The volva has been seen by some writers on the Northern European magical tradition, with one feels justficiation, as a prototype later post-Christian witches. Based on the known historical sources and her own practical experience over a ten year period, Katie Gerrard offers her readers modern techniques for achieving a state of trance and contacting the Norse gods, spirits and the ancestral dead. RECOMMENDED.”
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