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How people uses their runes could vary a lot. First of all it depends on if you are going to use them for telling fortune or just have one for protection or something else. The runes, words or sentences that have a specified purpose could be put somewhere on a safe place close to you. You can have them as jewellery, in your pocket or maybe somewhere in your room, house or garden. Runestones or woodrunes as you use to tell fortune with should be kept in your room. |
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In some rituals you look up in the sky and pick a rune directly from the bag you have them in, others pick their stones from a piece of cloth on the floor (they look up in the sky too, or in the roof). In other rituals you pour out all your runes on a piece of cloth on the floor and try to see a connection to the runes that are close to eachother. When you practice any form of runemagic you should really think of what you are doing (that means no tv-talkshow in the background). The one who feels that they have to have light or fires do that, other don’t. You don’t have to say anything out loud, but you should communicate even more with your mind. The oldest ways to practice runemagic is documented in the book Germania, 100 after our chronology started. It was written by the roman historian Tactius who noted what he had seen of the German tribes in north Europe. Discoveries have showed us that combatrunes decorated swords and protection- and fertilizationrunes where carved into houses or carried around the neck. Odin carved in runes in his horse Sleipnir’s teeth. One rune carver from Blekinge in the south of Sweden wanted to make sure that nobody ruined his work so he carved in a magic curse on the Bjorketorpsstone. At the back of the stone can the following be read “utharaba sba” which means ‘misfortune prophecy’. At the front one can see “haidR runo ronu falahak haidera ginarunaR arageu haeramalausaR uti aR weladaude saR that barutR” which means something like ‘This is the runes secret: I hid power runes here, which cannot be harmed with perversity. Deceitful death far from home will come to the violator.’
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