Pagan Portals: Runes, Softcover Book

Runes have been used for carving, casting, and cursing since long before anyone put them on a black metal album cover, though that's a fine use too.

Pagan Portals: Runes by Kylie Holmes cuts through the noise and gets into it properly, covering the ancient Scandinavian origins of the runic writing system and how they've been used across centuries in magical ritual, divination, and spellwork. The Pagan Portals series from Moon Books is known for being accessible without being dumbed down, which matters when the subject has been so thoroughly colonised by both mass-market fluff and, on the darker end, people who've forgotten that Norse tradition belongs to everyone and no one in particular. This one is a clean, practical starting point or a solid reference if you've already been working with runes for a while.

Softcover. Part of the Moon Books Pagan Portals series. Compact format, suitable for beginners through to intermediate practitioners.