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Where can I find out about Celtic, Witch or Druid runes?

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Where can I find out about Celtic, Witch or Druid runes?

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You will find websites, books and so-called experts out there on the www that talk about Celtic, Witch or Druid runes, but these are quite erroneous inventions of modern origin. There are no such things as Celtic, Witch or Druid runes. In other words, these people are misinformed, or they are just making it up. Irish Celts did have a strange written form called Ogham (pronounced Oh-ehm) script used for a small number of inscriptions, but Ogham is not related to the runic form nor does it bear any more than a superficial resemblance. The fact is that Celts and Druids, the indigenous population of Britain had no contact with Norse culture or anything to do with runes. When migrants from Northern Europe started to settle the North and East of Britain from around 500AD they brought their culture and runes with them. By that time the great majority of Celtic tribes had already started to adopt Christianity, so the pagan faith of the invader was assimilated only minimally, if at all. In fact

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