The shocking news stirred the Web - three centuries later, the letter dictated by the devil to the nun Maria Crosifissa della Conchesion was deciphered!
It is known that the born Isabella Tomasi was from 15 years old in the Benedictine convent of Palma di Monteciaro in Agrigento. But one morning of 1676 did not begin according to the plan of God - the girl woke up in her cell, sitting on the floor, and even with smudged ink and face! On the table she found a piece of paper with text, the meaning of which no one understood ...
Nun Maria did not hide anything, but immediately admitted to the nuns that this letter was dictated to her by the devil himself, who settled in her!
By the way, then in the words "obsessed" no one doubted, and even vice versa - the letter was exhibited in the monastery for public viewing. But the ill luck - the meaning of the words written by the girl under the dictation of the devil, no one could understand or read. Who would have doubted that after 361 the mysterious manuscript would be simply left alone and did not try to find out the truth? But it is worth noting, the visible results of the draw versions and attempts did not bring, until ...
For the time being, Italian computer geniuses from the scientific research center Ludum in Catania did not take up the job. It turns out that they used the anonymous DarkNet space, which was closed from the authorities and search engines, which remains invisible to ordinary browsers, and there they picked up a suitable deciphering algorithm!
You will not believe, but in order to start working with the "language of the devil", specialists had to load into the program a lot of rare alphabets, including Yezidi, Ancient Greek and even ancient German runic.
The algorithm worked, trying to match letters from alphabets with signs and letters from a mysterious letter. And 15 lines of an eerie message "succumbed" to him!
By the way, the text itself, indeed, is very similar to the devil - it is written nervously, chaotically, and even in different languages. And the red line through the whole "message" is a reflection on the relationship between people, God and the devil.
Here are some phrases and extracts verbatim: "God was invented by man," "This system does not work for anyone," "God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is an extra load, useless", well - "God believes that he can release all mortals ".
"The Letter of the Devil"
After the long-awaited opening, the director of the Ludum Center, Daniele Abate, comments on the incident with undisguised skepticism:
"Probably Maria was a talented linguist. She wrote the text in a language she invented herself, mixing the alphabets she knew. Each symbol is well thought out and structured. But the devil, of course, was ... In her head! "
Scientists have already managed to establish that nun Maria really was an excellent linguist - she knew Latin, Greek and Runic alphabets. But this knowledge was added and delivered diagnoses - it turns out that the girl suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Today the famous "letter of the devil" is kept in the cathedral of the city of Agrigento (Sicily), and its copy is in the nunnery's own monastery of Maria.