Why become a mistress of seid? Because seid facilitates knowledge, and to receive this form of knowledge you must learn to give what knowledge you have. But to have something of value to teach, it must be practical and objective truth, found in reality. To spread unsubstantiated half-truth is to poison the folk way. For the seid woman to develop further, all knowledge must be internally woven and externally articulated.

If a cat puts its paws over both ears, then a stranger can be expected to arrive soon.

If a cat washes only its face, a friend is on their way to pay a visit.

If a cat washes above its ears, it is going to rain.

If a cat stops washing to look at someone, they will receive a letter.

The cat is right more times than wrong.

-Old German proverbs

"Down you will go, to get out.
Up you will go, to reach in.
Hang you will to win might.
Reach through the mist to open Midgard's door."
-A Svart Elf's riddle

Blood of kin born from elder days, flow between the worlds.

Blood of kin binding clan, bound to harrow's lay.

Blood of earth's red howe - all fair red rune - rede well!

A rune, like a person, once it has been uttered, must go out into the resistant world to make its own way. It space becomes its own space as it is propelled towards victory or defeat in its struggle in the ancestral folk way. An important factor of the rune is the seid woman. Such a woman is indispensable to a man who would be vitki. A true seid woman is an internal rune weaver of external manifestation. The primary aim and function of rune work is the extension of the spoken rune into the physical world. This platform can only stand as the result of passion and precision.

"There was a man called Kotkel, who had only recently arrived in Iceland. His wife was called Grima. Their sons were Hallbjorn Sleekstone-Eye and Stigandi. These people had come from the Hebrides. They were all extremely skilled in witchcraft and were great sorceress."
-Laxdaela Saga

"Everthing in this description..suggests that this is a nest of witches born to the trade."
-Dr. Stephen Mitchell, commenting on the above verse

The Earth's Serpent - Midgard's Might - is a girdle upon a seidman. As Wodan rides Sleipnir the seidman's steed is Jormangand. Traveling through all worlds their ancient tracks are seen today.