Does seiðR involve soul retrieval, psychic healing, or sex magic?
It does not seem the ancient Germanics belived parts of the soul could be lost, at least not in the sense of other cultures. For example, one’s luck could be stolen or given away, and that is a part of one’s soul. However, their mind or spirit form (the hama) could not. Too, there are no examples of soul retrieval in the lore. As for psychic healing, seiðR involved soul manipulation, so it is possible it could have been used for psychic healing, even though there are no examples in the lore. As for sex magic, there is no documentation whatsoever to link seiðR to sex magic in the lore. This is not to say sex magic did not exist, but that it apparently was not considered seiðR by the ancients.
