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← Older revision		Revision as of 08:44, 16 July 2022
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−	[[Category:Mythos:Tomes]][[Category:FolkMythos]]	+	[[Category:Mythos:Tomes:NonMythos]]
		+	[[Category:FolkMythos]]

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 The "[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)|Hollywood version]]" refers to:
-* [[Demon]]s (the usual invocations of [[Dagon]], [[Belphegor]], [[Asmodeus]], [[Leviathan]], [[Asteroth]], [[Balberith]], and the like); as seen in ''[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)]]''
+* [[Demon]]s (the usual invocations of [[Dagon and Hydra|Dagon]], [[Belphegor]], [[Asmodeus]], [[Leviathan]], [[Asteroth]], [[Balberith]], and the like); as seen in ''[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)]]''
 * [[Aleister Crowley]] and Satan (as seen in the "True" Red Book paperback)

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 * setting:  [[Folk Mythos]], [[Folk Horror]]
-* races:
+* race:  [[Faerie]]s
-** [[Faerie]]s
+* race:  [[Witch]]es
-** [[Witch]]es
+* race:  [[Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath]]
-** [[Shub-Niggurath]]
+* deity:  [[Raw Head and Bloody Bones]]
 The "[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)|Hollywood version]]" refers to:

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 The "[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)|Hollywood version]]" refers to:
-* [[Demon]]s (the usual invocations of [[Dagon]], [[Belphegor]], [[Asmodeus]], [[Leviathan]], [[Asteroth]], [[Balberith]], and the like); as seen in ''[[[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)]]''
+* [[Demon]]s (the usual invocations of [[Dagon]], [[Belphegor]], [[Asmodeus]], [[Leviathan]], [[Asteroth]], [[Balberith]], and the like); as seen in ''[[Mark of the Witch (1970 film)]]''
 * [[Aleister Crowley]] and Satan (as seen in the "True" Red Book paperback)

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 * Author:  anonymous (2016), attributed to Vlad the Impaler,
 * Language: English and Mumbojumbo
-* Rarity:  commonly spotted in New Age bookstores, on the internet, and on basement cinderblock-and-2x4 bookshelves next to copies of the "''[[Occult_Books#Simon_Necronomicon|Simonomoicon]]''", [[Butchery (band)|cheesy heavy metal]] albums, and dark-and-edgy role-playing games held up with ceramic demon-skull book-ends
+* Rarity:  commonly spotted in New Age bookstores, on the internet, and on basement cinderblock-and-2x4 bookshelves next to copies of the "''[[Occult_Books#Simon_Necronomicon|Simonomicon]]''", [[Butchery (band)|cheesy heavy metal]] albums, and dark-and-edgy role-playing games held up with ceramic demon-skull book-ends
 Physical Description:  paperback with black cardboard cover in white Spïnal Tap text dubiously identifying the book to be "The True Red Book of Appin: The Grimoire of Vlad the Impaler 666".  The back cover proclaims:  "Some say that The Red Book had been dictated by Vlad Tepes himself to some monk Kirill. If it is so or not, we cannot say, but the devil-worshipping of the great Romanian general is an unquestionable fact, which no serious black adept can deny. It is well known that this document, enwrapped in blood-red leather of some unknown creature (according to rumors , that was one of lower demons, invoked by Vlad specially for this purpose), was kept by the english merchant Joseph Appin (from this comes the title of the book), who died in 1689 and bequeathed to bury it together with him.  Having accomplished their father`s behest, two of his sons afterwards digged his grave out in order to get the access to the source of terrible transcendent knowledge, but found no book there. It is possible that the book had been stolen by some offspiring of Vlad, and since then it was imparted from father to son until the year 1869, when it got into the hands of the Hungarian secret community Tremalosh, which afterwards turned to one of branches of the Great Black Lodge under the abbreviation A.C.C. The copy had been imparted to the Pontiphic of the Lodge Johan Kellenheim in 1901 and translated to polish and German. The further destinity of the original is unknown. It's written in the purest version of the Enochian language, in comparison with which the language of John Dee is just a pitiable senseless murmuring, and not with Enochian symbols but with Latin letters, which confirms the version of writing it by the monk, unfamiliar with the Heavenly Language."
-General Content:  The usual generic dark-and-edgy post-modern occult balderdash of the sort found in "''[[Occult_Books#Simon_Necronomicon|Simonomoicon]]''":  a suspicious-sounding mostly-fictional history of the infamous lost tome and its dubious rediscovery, half-baked references to Aleistar Crowley, invocations to near-eastern demons cribbed loosely from other dubious sources, assorted scary-sounding curses and hexes, completely unworkable spells cobbled together from a variety of disparate sources, gleeful descriptions of gory blood sacrifices, and all the other usual suspects.  In short, this version of the ''Red Book'' is not the original tome, but a millennial hoax purporting to be a lost tome, complete with all the set dressing that could possibly be inspired by getting high and rewatching ''[[Blair Witch Project (1999 franchise)|Blair Witch 2]]'' while listening to Cannibal Corpse, reading ''The Satanic Bible'', and playing ''F.A.T.A.L.'', and should probably not be taken very seriously in-game (or out) as a Mythos tome....
+General Content:  The usual generic dark-and-edgy post-modern occult balderdash of the sort found in "''[[Occult_Books#Simon_Necronomicon|Simonomicon]]''":  a suspicious-sounding mostly-fictional history of the infamous lost tome and its dubious rediscovery, half-baked references to Aleistar Crowley, invocations to near-eastern demons cribbed loosely from other dubious sources, assorted scary-sounding curses and hexes, completely unworkable spells cobbled together from a variety of disparate sources, gleeful descriptions of gory blood sacrifices, and all the other usual suspects.  In short, this version of the ''Red Book'' is not the original tome, but a millennial hoax purporting to be a lost tome, complete with all the set dressing that could possibly be inspired by getting high and rewatching ''[[Blair Witch Project (1999 franchise)|Blair Witch 2]]'' while listening to Cannibal Corpse, reading ''The Satanic Bible'', and playing ''F.A.T.A.L.'', and should probably not be taken very seriously in-game (or out) as a Mythos tome....

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 * Folklore legends about the book:
 ** According to folklore on the tome's origin, the book had been in the possession of witches and faeries, who had approached a young man to employ as a servant, offering wealth for the man's agreement of service and his signature in the book; the youth, being of pious, thoughtful, and cautious character, declined to sign the book carelessly, but instead arranged to meet his would-be employers by midnight and trick them into handing the book to him to sign while he was standing within a protective ward, and then, rather than signing it, waiting for the dawn, at which point the villains, unable to retrieve the book, cursed, turned into ravens, black cats, and monstrous worms, which, uttering parting curses at the youth, scattered into hiding before the rising of the sun.
-** The book appears to have vanished under mysterious circumstances, the house in which it was kept being swallowed into monstrous sinkhole of prodigious depth, from which issued a horrifying smell, an unnatural chill and fog, and frightful voices.  A daring young man, with the intent of retrieving the book from the pit for a prize, had himself lowered in a basket at the end of a long rope, deep into the hole. Through his descent, he bravely described strange and frightful things which could be dimly seen and heard among the mists and within the wreckage of the sunken house, until his nerve suddenly broke at some ghastly revelation of the parting mists, and, uttering frantic cries and pulling the rope in the agreed-upon signal to pull him out of the sinkhole.  The party assembled at the mouth of the hole struggled to pull the rope, basket, and adventurer out of the pit, but failed to do so before the hole closed itself up with a terrible groan and rumbling from within the earth.
+** The original book appears to have vanished under mysterious circumstances, the house in which it was kept being swallowed into monstrous sinkhole of prodigious depth, from which issued a horrifying smell, an unnatural chill and fog, and frightful voices.  A daring young man, with the intent of retrieving the book from the pit for a prize, had himself lowered in a basket at the end of a long rope, deep into the hole. Through his descent, he bravely described strange and frightful things which could be dimly seen and heard among the mists and within the wreckage of the sunken house, until his nerve suddenly broke at some ghastly revelation of the parting mists, and, uttering frantic cries and pulling the rope in the agreed-upon signal to pull him out of the sinkhole.  The party assembled at the mouth of the hole struggled to pull the rope, basket, and adventurer out of the pit, but failed to do so before the hole closed itself up with a terrible groan and rumbling from within the earth.
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 * Mythos Knowledge: little or none
 * Occult Knowledge: minor
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-===Original Red Book of Appin===
+===Red Book of Appin (original)===
 * Author: anonymous
 * Language: Gaelic and Latin, with strange runes (possibly [[Aklo]] or [[Enochian]])
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-===The True Red Book of Appin===
+===The "True" Red Book of Appin (paperback)===
 * Author:  anonymous (2016), attributed to Vlad the Impaler,
 * Language: English and Mumbojumbo