The Grimm brothers are known throughout the world as the founders of German studies. The Grimm fairy tales are world-famous and even became even more famous through the fantasy Hollywood movie Brothers Grimm. But hardly anyone knows that the Brothers Grimm also dealt with the Old Germanic runes and are even the founders of runology. In this book Wilhelm Grimm writes about the different alphabets of common German runes, their ancestry and relationship, as well as their appearance and their different use in different temporal and local constellations. He describes their use and usage and goes into the different rune writings. The use of the runes, which according to old tradition were like sunrays flowing out of the divine substance, was handed down through many blessings, spells, curses, curses, curses, and spells.