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Chapter 8. The Making of a Seiðman 221
strenuous. There are three steep sections before the lake and each section usually
requires a short break before continuing on. This particular time I was traveling
with the Little Red Man and was hunting him in the forests on the way up to the
lake. He seemed in a very frivolous mood on this day and was making a number of
light jokes. I knew that we were traveling quickly but what I didn’t realize is that
we would make the trip in 45 mins.! I’m not sure that I could do the trip on my
own in that amount of time even if I were on flat ground!
There are times in a seið-session where the Little Red Man offers to run the
journey to where it is that we need to go. He very much likes to travel to the North
to visit a strange man called the Reindeer Man who is a giant of a man and who
herds reindeer. This man has answers about how to find answers. He seems to know
everybody and every place and if he does not, he knows how to get to the answer
quickly. The Little Red Man also has an herb-doctor friend who lives in a cottage in
a forest to the Southeast. As far as I can tell, her only job is making medicines from
local plants. She seems to know cures for everything. All in all the Little Red Man
is a great traveling companion, he is fun (for the most part–he does have a small bit
of a nasty streak which can involve incredible nausea and diarrhea, though).
The preparation for the Little Red Man varies slightly from session to session.
His strength also varies to some degree and this can be related to the individual
mushrooms used, what was eaten within the last 24 hrs. or the seiðman’s frame of
mind. If one has a prediliction for becoming a companion of the Little Red Man, he
will choose you, teach and coach you.
The other plant is by far the most dangerous that I know with the exception
of hemlock or monkshood–he is called Toloache here in New Mexico, but his latin
name is datura meteloides. Now there are other daturas which grow here and in
fact some of them are safer to use than this one, but this is the only one who has
adopted me.
The collection of the plant is done in the the twilight of the morning when she
is in full bloom. Notice that I say ‘she’–the ghost is a dark noble woman, royalty,
but the seiðmaker will never get to deal with her directly because she is protected
closely by a warrior of immense strength and courage. Unfortunately, his treatment
of visitors to his queen is poor. Not only can and will he challenge you but if care
is not taken, he can harm severely. He cannot be tricked, nor does he even listen.
His only job is to protect the queen at all cost.
The medicines made with this ghost are potent! If the ghost, through her warrior
translator, decides to help a seiðman procure a cure for a client, she will do so at
lightening speed. Sometimes this feels like what it must be to get caught in an
avalanche of a tidal wave. The power and speed are often very disorienting. She has