{ W722B946DRV4 }Since keeping a book of shadows has change from being a book of recipes created by families, which contained fokelaw and superstition to at it most extreme version , a digital diary containing spells and rituals. During the Burning Times these books would be used as evidence of witchcraft so other forms of passing information on where developed. Information was passed on via oral stories and rhythms and pictures. Codes where created to unlock these secrete and sadly many have been lost but that being said it as allowed neo pagan to find and develop new skills and rituals. As part of the reclaiming of the old tradition some Neo Pagan paths will use a Magickal Alphabet these are ancient or made up alphabets which are used to hide information contained with in. The Most common being Theban or the Witches alphabet was created by Honorius in the 12th century as a way to encode other writing (likely Latin at the time). The other alphabet that are common are Enochian is also referred to as Angelic Script and is used in ceremonial magick Legend has it that the magicians Edward Kelly and Dr. John Dee were given this language by an angel and Ogham which is an alphabet used by the Druids, and each letter corresponds to a sacred tree. And finally the best known of all ancient alphabets, runes which are also associated with divination. The alphabet is called the Futhark, Runic writings have been found throughout northern Europe and date mostly
