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long, heavy thongs, on the ends of which were large brass buttons. She had catskin gloves upon her
hands, the white fur of which was turned inward. The food given this woman to honor her was prepared
from the hearts of every kind of animal that there was in the neighborhood. To enter her trance, she sat
upon the witch's seat (seidh-hjallr). The women formed a circle about her and a young girl sang the ritual
song called Vardhlokur (Watch-guard) which had been taught to her by her foster-mother.3 Another saga
tells of an Icelandic Vala who travelled accompanied by fifteen boys and fifteen girls, who would
presumably form the circle and sing the song.
The greatest tools of spae-craft seem to have been the staff and hooded cloak. The staff was a
symbol of the spae-worker's authority and may have been used in typical shamanic fashion for the
journey between worlds. The hood was placed over the head during the working. It would seem to have
cut off the spae-worker from the seen world and made her/him able to receive wisdom from the hidden
realms. This was done for both fore-seeing and to deal with problems that could not be solved by ordinary
means, as when the Icelandic lawspeaker Thorgeirr, faced with the problem of reconciling pagans and
Christians under one law, contemplated the issue in silence "under the cloak" for a day and a night before
he called the folk to the law-rock.4
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