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“They may give you special powers, outer beauty, talent, and wealth for a while… but it doesn’t last. This is the reason why so many people who dabble in the dark arts are so unhappy. They flicker bright like a morning star and then wind up committing suicide or destroying themselves with substance abuse.”
— Lady Gaga talks about the consequences to selling her soul
The Devil’s Handwriting
 The image above was reproduced by John Ashton (1896) in his book called “The Devil in Britain and America” but is originally taken from a book by Albonesi calledÂ
“Introductio in Chaldaicam linguam, Syriacam atque Armenicam et decem alias linguas characterum differentium alphabeta circiter quadraginta et eorundem invicem conformatio“
The image is allegedly the result ofÂ
Ludovico Spoletano conjuring the devil to ask it a question. Spoletano claims that a strange force took the pen, which seemed suspended in the air, and rapidly wrote what is facsimiled. Spoletano the handed the writing over to Albonesi who was unable to decipher it. In fact no one has been able to decipher the text to this day.
Here are screenshots of the text surrounding the Devil’s Handwriting in case you guys were curious.
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 