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Generally ancient Teutonic magic was not very high. Among the lesser figures of mythology who were believed to have direct contact with ancient Teutonic peoples and assist them, or were connected with them in the practice of magic, were the duergar, or dwarfs, undines, nixies, and other spirits.
 
Belief in them was distinctly animistic. The people believed that dwarfs and trolls inhabited the recesses of the mountains, caves, and the underworld. Nixies and undines were said to dwell in the lakes, rivers, pools, and inlets of the sea. In general these were friendly to humans, but objected to more than occasional intercourse with them.

Although not of the class of supernatural beings who obeyed humans in answer to magical summonses, these, especially the dwarfs, often acted as instructors in the arts of magic. Many instances of this are found in tales and romances of early Teutonic origin.

Witchcraft was much more in favor among the northern Teutons than it was in Germany, and this circumstance has been attributed to their proximity to the Finns, a race notorious for its propensities toward magic. In Norway, Orkney, and Shetland, the practice of sorcery seems to have been almost exclusively in the hands of Finnish women. There is little doubt that the Finns exercised upon the Teutons of Scandinavia the mythic influence of a conquered race; that is, they took full advantage of the terror inspired in their conquerors by an alien and unfamiliar religion and ritual in which magic was an integral element.

The principal activities of Teutonic witchcraft were the raising of storms, the selling of pieces of knotted rope (each knot representing a wind), divination and prophecy, and acquiring invisibility. Since the sea was the element of the people, it became the chief element of the witch of the northern Teutons

In the north of Scotland, the Teutonic and Celtic systems of magic may be said to have met and fused, but not to have clashed, since their many points of resemblance outweighed their differences.

Animal transformation also played a considerable part in Teutonic magic and witchcraft. In early Germany the witch (hexe) seems to have also acquired the characteristics of a vampire.

Second Sight

The Teutons seem to have excelled in prophecy and divination; the practice was more widespread among the northern Teutons than the southern. Prophetic utterance was usually induced by ecstasy, but it was not the professional diviner alone who was capable of supernatural vision. Anyone under stress of excitement, and particularly if near death, might become fey (prophetic), and great attention was invariably paid to utterances made while the person was in this condition.

Lady Druydess taught Lord Morpheus & Lady Danu many aspects of Teutonic Witchcraft. Lady Druydess considers herself to be a Teutonic Witch.