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A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magic (Llewellyn's New Age)
by Lisa Peschel
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (1989-01-01)
ISBN: 0875425933
EAN: 9780875425931
Dewey Decimal #: 133.4
Paperback: 192 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 20425
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Paperback. All pages clean and free of marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A Practical Guide to the Runes
Rune Magick: A Powerful Force for Guidance, Protection, and Luck
EIHWAZ the yew, URUZ the wild ox, KENAZ the hearth fire. Created by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of northern Europe, the runes began as a magickal system of pictographs representing the forces and objects in nature.
This guidebook will help you discover the oracular nature of the runes and how to use them as a magickal tool for insight, protection, and luck. Practical and concise, this book includes:
• Complete descriptions of the twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark,
plus WYRD, the blank rune
• The differences between bindrunes and runescripts
• Four rune layouts and detailed rune interpretations,
including reversed position meanings
• How to carve runes and create talismans
• Meanings and uses of the runes in magick
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Customer Reviews
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awesome read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-25
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
this is one of the best explanation of the runes i have found so far...I have enjoyed this book greatly and often refer back to it.
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Cheap, but is it good value?
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-05-11
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is fairly typical of the inexpensive mass-market New-Age manuals available. It may be a handy booklet on divination, but it has little connection to the historical runes. It could just as well substitute any set of symbols and do the same job.
Anyone following the Northern Traditions will be disappointed, perhaps even offended. The author follows Blum's lead in creating a superficial divination system complete with the spurious "blank rune". She adds a little influence from other New-Age rune writers, but makes no effort to access the wealth of interesting and powerful historical information that can be found in a university library, or even on the Internet these days. The 3 main rune references she cites are Blum, Fitch, & Conway, need I say more?
Some may find the book handy for its techniques, but if you want useful information on runes, you will need to look elsewhere.
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Best Book on Rune-Casting for all beginning Novice Runesters.
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-18
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a great simple pocket-guide to the Runes.This paperback is an excellent primer for all new Rune students,as i once was.So,if you're a more serious divination student,you will quickly move on from the basics presented here.The next forward step would be ,"The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Runes",by Sirona Knight and later the Thorsson series.The"Blank Rune Debate" is a difficult one to side with.There are the faithful Rune Traditionalists and also the creative New-Age Runestres among us.This book is still a good one.You also might read,"Gods and Myths of the Viking Age",by H.R. Ellis Davidson,for an excellent look at who created the Edda Prose and the lasting Runic gift of heathen communion with Nature.-Enjoy!
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Practical Guide to the Runes
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-07-05
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This interpretation just didn't do it for me. The interpretations of each rune felt inconsistant, more like a compilation of other people's interpretations. This is not to say that another person wouldn't find just what they need in this book. It just didn't click with me.
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Not bad for the beginner
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-05-15
3 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book has a fairly decent (but short) description of the divinatory meanings of the runes, with some brief sections on their magical uses. One thing that bothers me is her inclusion of the blank rune, which is clearly a relatively modern addition which *some* prefer to use, but which most historical purists reject. That said, I still reference it when I want a fairly quick reading, because she does have a decent amount of insight on the modern implications of rune castings - especially when it comes to elaborating on certain runes appearing in combination with others.
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