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Internet Book of Shadows: Runic Thorn Ritual (Faunus)

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This is a practical ritual instruction from the 1999 *Internet Book of Shadows*, a collaborative neopagan text compiled online. The work belongs to the tradition of modern runic magic (specifically influenced by the reconstructed Germanic/Norse magical system popularized by authors like Edred Thorsson and Freya Aswynn), combined with broadly Wiccan ceremonial circle-casting conventions. The ritual centers on the Thurisaz (Thorn) rune, invoking it at six cardinal points and then using breath-sustained chanting and physical movement to "weave" a visualized sphere of thorny briar around the practitioner as a protective magical barrier. A distinctive feature is the embodied, improvisational quality of the working — the practitioner is encouraged to dance, spiral, and move freely while chanting, with the physical energy of movement explicitly channeled into the visualization. The ritual concludes with invocations of five Norse deities (Odhinn, Urdh, Freyr, Freya, and Thorr) in specific runic body postures, and the author acknowledges partial debt to Thorsson's Hammer Rite while claiming the overall structure as original. It will interest readers curious about how 1990s online neopaganism synthesized academic runic scholarship with practical ritual design.

Internet Book of Shadows: Runic Thorn Ritual (Faunus)

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