Pagan prisoners allowed twigs to use as magic wands

Further proof of a world gone mad. No one could make this stuff up….
ReligionNews: Pagan prisoners allowed twigs in their cells to use as magic wands
Prison officers have been ordered to allow Pagan prisoners to take twigs into their cells to use as magic wands.
The ruling has been announced as part of a prisons [...]

The Mystery of Runes

There is a very good teaching posted today at Crossroad: The Mystery of Runes by Carl Teichrib
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…symbols form a visual shorthand for ideas—and yet their functions and meanings extend to something much more than that. — Jack Tresidder, Dictionary of Symbols, p. 6.
The crucial question, of course, is what kind of meaning is being conferred [...]