"seiðkona" meaning in English

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      "form": "seidkona",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: seiðmann"
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          "ref": "2009, Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera, quoting Gudrun of Mimirsbrunnr, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of the Spirit, page 90:",
          "text": "People ask me, as a seidkona, how they can hear the gods, and I say: start with silence.",
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          "ref": "2011, Katie Gerrard, Seidr - The Gate Is Open: Working with Trance Prophecy, the High Seat, and Norse Witchcraft, page 71:",
          "text": "The other reading shows the whale as a part of the hugr of the women, with the whale shape (and possibly the storm) created by the seidkonas.",
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          "ref": "2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, page 91:",
          "text": "Frithiof's Saga tells of two seiðkonur (women who know seiðr) hired to drown some enemies of their paymaster at sea.",
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        "(Germanic paganism) A female practitioner of seiðr; a seeress; a witch."
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