1. The ritual was called “draumbinding” — the binding of dreams. Viking healers used it after battle or grief, long before medicine could name trauma. A patient lay on cold ground while another pressed a hand to their chest and whispered the phrase: “The fear leaves where breath begins.” Then they performed a two-minute sequence of controlled breath and muscle release that priests later condemned as “pagan hypnosis.” 2. The method disappeared after King Christian IV banned all Norse healing rite

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