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Germanic seeresses,
including Albruna, Veleda, Ganna, and, by way of an
archaeological find, Waluburg.
Norse mythology mentions several seeresses, some of...
- The
Cimbrian seeresses were
priestesses of the Cimbri. The
people they
belonged to
appears to have been a
Germanic tribe that
became a Celto-Germanic...
- Haliurunnas, haliurunnae, etc., were
Gothic "witches" (also
called priestesses,
seeresses,
shamans or wise women) who
appear once in Getica, a 6th
century work...
-
Cimbrian seeresses performing human sacrifice, from
Germania by
Johannes Scherr....
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Egypt at the
First Cataract of the Nile.
Ganna and the
other Germanic seeresses served an
important political role in
Germanic society, and the Romans...
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villains simply simper and melt;
fierce men and
cunning statesmen and
seeresses all bend
before this new Messiah".
Budrys faulted in
particular Herbert's...
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something akin to Norns,
spirits who
decide destinies of men; to the
seeresses, who
could protect men in
battle with
their spells; to the
powerful female...
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equally old, but
similarly transmitted by
Phoenician culture, and that the
seeresses –
Herodotus does not say "sibyls" – were women.
Herodotus follows with...
- peoples,
including a
focus on
sacred groves and trees, the
presence of
seeresses, and
numerous vocabulary items. The
archaeological record has yielded...
- a
distant relative who
reveals Elinor’s
connection to a
sisterhood of
seeresses, she
finds that she is to play a
vital part in the
fight against a powerful...
