The witch's runes are a very old divination system using ancient symbols burnt onto pieces of wood or carved into pieces of stone and cast as lots. Some believe these symbols to be derived from the pictish runes, which date back thousands of years.
"Another wonderful sculptured stone has been discovered at Mail, Cunningsburgh – the ninth inscribed stone to be found there in the past 130 years…The graveyard where the stone was uncovered has been a center for religious belief for 2,000 years, and may have been a center of cultural or political power during the Pictish era." – Shetland Museum News June 2008
"Another wonderful sculptured stone has been discovered at Mail, Cunningsburgh – the ninth inscribed stone to be found there in the past 130 years…The graveyard where the stone was uncovered has been a center for religious belief for 2,000 years, and may have been a center of cultural or political power during the Pictish era." – Shetland Museum News June 2008