Witches Runes: Insights from the Old European Magickal Traditions

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Summary: STARS
Review: 0 Stars for a Zero Book. Where is it? What is it? Why would it be

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Summary: Fluff and Pop Schlock from Nigel Jackson
Review: Here we have the evidence of Nigel Jackson's true colors. He aligns his name with well known pop-schlock peddlar Silver Ravenwolf. While he attacks practices emergent in the nineteen-thirties through sixties, he has no qualms about attaching the word "Old" to a rune row derived in the late nineteen-nineties.
It is very clear that Jackson does not feel that real or in depth work is worth the effort if he can fill his pockets with silver from foisting half baked crap on the Pagan Federation's mindless neofundies. How appropriately he has been quoted as referring to them as "marks."

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Summary: TRANSFORMATIONAL!
Review: I am so, so infatuated with this set. I had attempted to read runes before, using a plain clay set, and had a great deal of trouble trying to acertain meanings from the lines alone. These beautiful cards work like the Tarot or Cartouche, unveiling the meanings through the symbolism and art to better understand the energies of each rune. The accompanying handbook is a gem, with background information on the Norse religion (including a great introduction to the Norse pantheon), information on each rune (symbolism, oracular meanings, and magickal workings), and some very good rituals, including one of the best circle-casting methods i've ever heard of. I highly reccomend this set to magickal people, or people just wanting to bring the power of the runes into their lives.

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Summary: good info on magical uses of the runes as well as divination
Review: I really enjoy the witches runes. The guidebook is packed full of information on divination, history and magical uses for the runes. Good meditations and rituals too. I also recommend reading "Northern Mysteries and Magick" by Freya Aswynn(formerly "Leaves of Yggdrasil"). The runes are a wonderful way to explore the "mysteries", and incorporate an ancient system of knowledge into your life. This system has much to offer the modern practitioner! Blessed Be

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Summary: good info on magical uses of the runes as well as divination
Review: I really enjoy the witches runes. The guidebook is packed full of information on divination, history and magical uses for the runes. Good meditations and rituals too. I also recommend reading "Northern Mysteries and Magick" by Freya Aswynn(formerly "Leaves of Yggdrasil"). The runes are a wonderful way to explore the "mysteries", and incorporate an ancient system of knowledge into your life. This system has much to offer the modern practitioner! Blessed Be

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Summary: good info on magical uses of the runes as well as divination
Review: I really enjoy the witches runes. The guidebook is packed full of information on divination, history and magical uses for the runes. Good meditations and rituals too. I also recommend reading "Northern Mysteries and Magick" by Freya Aswynn(formerly "Leaves of Yggdrasil"). The runes are a wonderful way to explore the "mysteries", and incorporate an ancient system of knowledge into your life. This system has much to offer the modern practitioner! Blessed Be

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Summary: An excellent synthesis of Runic esoterica
Review: In reality this comprehensive book and vivid symbolic deck are grounded firmly in Anglo-Saxon runic traditions, the Drycraeft and Wiccedom of Old England. Both authors have direct links with authentic currents of Teutonic folk-magic and present here a reliable and all-in-one exposition of High Runecraft within the context of Germanic Hexerei and Saxon Wiccedom. This is genuine Runic divination and Magic in a very accessible and authentic form - ! Hail Woden and Freya!

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Summary: An excellent synthesis of Runic esoterica
Review: The previous review is not very accurate. In reality this comprehensive book and vivid symbolic deck are grounded firmly in Anglo-Saxon runic traditions, the Drycraeft and Wiccedom of Old England. Both authors have direct links with authentic currents of Teutonic folk-magic and present here a reliable and all-in-one exposition of High Runecraft within the context of Germanic Hexerei and Saxon Wiccedom. This is genuine Runic divination and Magic in a very accessible and authentic form - try it and see! Hail Woden and Freya!

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Summary: R. I. Page, Edred Thorsson, Freya Aswynn, the Rune Poems...
Review: There are so many good authors who are credentialed academics in areas of Germanic Studies, many of whom work with the runes, that I can't recommend going with authors who are just writing a book to capture a trend. If I wanted commercialized, watered-down, sanitized, American Eclectic Wicca, I'd look at Ravenwolf. When I want to read and contemplate the Runes, I buy a book from someone who knows what they are talking about. Better yet, I'll pick up the poems of the Elder Edda or the various Rune Poems. I will give them that it is at least far, far better researched than anything put out by Ralph Blum.

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Summary: Great Personal Deck!!!!!
Review: This is the one deck no one else gets to touch! It has absorbed my vibes beautifully and the answers I get are right on target! It took a bit of time to get used to the artwork but I love it! The interpretations and correspondences are helpful and easily understood. A definite asset to my collection of tools!!