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Book of Soyga supposedly kills anyone who reads it

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John Dee’s legendary occult text was filled with encrypted magical tables. The myth goes that anyone who decrypts it will die within two and a half years. So far, a few scholars have cracked it and lived, deeply disappointing edge-lords everywhere.

Book of Soyga supposedly kills anyone who reads it
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