Slow Havamal: 155

In verse 155, Odin says he knows a tenth spell: if he spots witches flying about, he casts it so that they get lost and are unable to find their skins or their minds.

The tenth spell in Havamal highlights some rather interesting clues about how witches operated in the Norse world. Not only do they have problems with witches, hence the spell, but the countermeasure reveals something of the witches’ methodology, namely that they projected a double outside of their body.
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