Questions about runes

Each page answers one question in its first sentences and names the date the answer stands on.

Question The date
Do runes actually work? An honest answer no source no text before the twentieth century reads a rune for a person
Are runes witchcraft? An answer with dates first appearance in print Guido von List, Das Geheimnis der Runen · 1908
Runes and tarot: what is the difference? oldest description runes: inscriptions from about AD 150 · tarot: the fifteenth century
How to write your name in runes oldest description the oldest complete row: the Kylver stone · about AD 400
Did the Vikings use the Elder Futhark? oldest description the Younger row of sixteen · in use by about AD 800