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The Voynich Coffin
Salt from Zipaquirá; paper pulp
Provenance: Lethe; contemporary
Coffin is, of course, a misnomer. To the best of our knowledge demons cannot be killed until they have fully taken on the form of a host, becoming what folklore would describe as a vampire.
Even then, both literature and limited experience indicate they’re challenging to permanently destroy.
However, their affinity for puzzles does make them relatively easy to trap.
The Voynich Coffin was created using the digitized pages of the legendary manuscript, methodically stamping them into sheaf after sheaf of salt paper, folding corner after corner to create what might be best described as an origami labyrinth.
The walls were bound using a variation on an enchantment created by Michael McGovern (’63) in his third year as Dante and as a means of protecting society rituals which explicitly called for the invocation of demons.
It’s worth noting that McGovern seems to have plagiarized the bulk of this ritual from the work of the Count of St. Germain, a source whom he failed to credit.
—from the Lethe Armory Catalogue as revised and edited by Pamela Dawes, Oculus