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Definition of Spaewife

Spaewife
Spaewife Spae"wife`, n. A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

Meaning of Spaewife from wikipedia

- In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell ****ure events and perform sorcery. They are also referred to with many...
- A Spaewife, spae-wife or Spey-wife etc., is a Scots language term for a fortune-telling woman. "Spae" comes from Old Norse "spá", meaning to prophesy....
- who claims to see into the ****ure include fortune teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, and prophet; related terms which...
- the West (1823) Ringan Gilhaize (The Covenanters) (3 volumes) (1823) The Spaewife (3 volumes) (1823) The Bachelor's Wife (1824) Rothelan (3 volumes) (1824)...
- is preserved in words such as "midwife", "goodwife", "fishwife" and "spaewife". After marriage, it is generally expected in many cultures that a woman...
- Travellers (New York, 1848), which was dramatized by "J. Pilgrim"; The Spaewife, or the Queen's Secret (Baltimore, 1853), a novel featuring the Völva,...
- Grippy The Gathering of the West Ringan Gilhaize, or The Covenanters The Spaewife: a tale of the Scottish chronicles Thomas GaspeyMonks of Leadenhead...
- Alexander Jaffray was Provost in 1651. Jaffray was accused of being a spaewife. Her husband was also charged. The records relating to the accusations...
- history/historical fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries: John Galt's The Spaewife (1823); Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather (1828); Dante Gabriel...
- In 1826 the Thoroughbred stallion Peter Fin, and mares Cutty Sark and Spaewife, were imported. The first recorded public auction of bloodstock took place...