Otherworld

See also: otherworld

English

Etymology

From otherworld.

Noun

the Otherworld (plural Otherworlds)

  1. (paganism) The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead or the fairy folk.
    • 1990, Michael Howard Thorson, Understanding Runes, page 21:
      In these dreams the spirits of the Otherworld materialized in the shape of animals and spoke to them.
    • 2001, Wulf Hengestsson, Thunder issue 16&17 (Heathen Journal), The Tale of Aelfstan:
      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.
    • 2005, Diana Paxson, Taking Up The Runes, Weiser Books, page 207:
      The spiritual skill that above all identifies the shaman is the ability to go into trance and journey through the Otherworld at will.
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