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otherworld

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Otherworld (noun) means a world beyond our own, especially where the dead or fairies are thought to live.

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A world beyond our own, especially where the dead or fairies are thought to live.

"The spiritual skill that above all identifies the shaman is the ability to go into trance and journey through the Otherworld at will." — Diana Paxson, Taking Up The Runes (2005)

"It is a time when folk remember their Ancestors in the Otherworlds and when the veil between the worlds is so thin that, with a little magic, you could pass through it." — Wulf Hengestsson, Thunder issue 16&17 (Heathen Journal) (2001)

"In these dreams the spirits of the Otherworld materialized in the shape of animals and spoke to them." — Michael Howard Thorson, Understanding Runes (1990)

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