Pagan

[Parker]

I have a question for those that use and work with runes pretty regularly - or at least are pretty familiar with them.

Way back in the day, before I could do searches on the interwebs, I used 2 books for my basic Wiccan/Pagan needs: Scott Cunningham's Wicca: A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner and Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft.

The information on runes in Buckland's book was all about alphabets and I used that mainly for spelling out my name when I carved it into my athame or whatever; but the information on runes in Cunningham's book was what I used for divination, carving runes into candles, etc.

One of the things I did was to create rune necklaces for myself and for a few close friends - basically a little wood piece onto which I would etch and burn a rune or two with a burning tool - usually something like comfort on one side and health on the other - or whatever.

Again, in those instances, I would use Cunningham's rune meanings:




Well, I lost my own necklace years ago - or I gave it to someone - whatever, my memory sucks - but what matters is that I am in the process of making myself a new one and when I was googling around looking at runes online, I found that it appears that either Cunningham's info is wrong or obsolete because instead of finding the same meanings for runes that he had in his book(s), I am finding things like this site and this site.



I understand that there are 3 main/well-known/most used rune meanings (Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and Younger Futhark) and that those meanings are all somewhat similar (and some of Cunningham's rune meanings match those other site's meanings), so I guess what I am asking is (a) do you consider the meanings behind the runes Cunningham provided in his book obsolete or incorrect, and (b) which rune meanings do you follow when doing rune work and/or divination and why?

Thanks for hanging in - that was a long way to go for that question! lol