29-03-2023, 06:19 PM
I was just going to write a book in the genre of mystical urban fantasy, even started writing, but I realized that I need more knowledge about the mythology of various mystical creatures to continue, so I started to study information about it on the Internet. I remember that I found a site of mystical content with a clear conspiracy undertone. I thought that this is exactly what I need. Mystical things were twisted so believably (at first glance) with real events that I, fully understanding that it was just a well-presented fiction, was delighted. And it happened that the Voynich manuscript was mentioned there, as a mysterious grimoire of some ancient immortal race, the text even had a link to the Wikipedia article. I had never heard of this manuscript before, so I got interested, read about it on Wikipedia, went to the Beinecke Library page with a facsimile, and that's how it got going. Maybe that's why Voynich's manuscript seemed to me somehow special and mystical. I never began to finish the book I had started, because I was too engrossed in the manuscript, and later the idea seemed too frivolous. However, I wrote a small fairy tale based on the illustrations of Quire 13, and I am happy about that.