Augustus Rookwood, Manuscript, Early 1977
Name: Augustus Rookwood
Date: Early Spring 1977
Format: Fragment of a manuscript; note
Relevance: This incomplete page from a restricted muggle manuscript of 1467 was found in Rookwood's lab, and dates his research into Inferi to early 1977, roughly around the time of his recruitment by the Death Eaters.
Archivist's reconstruction:
Off the Appeyring off Ded Bodyes that thay Seme to Aryse Agayne and to Speke or do thy Bydding
Take harde stonnes, and playne in the which there Is neyther hoole nor ryft or ells, tyles specyally made for that purpose, and lett him that shall make them be cleane from all pollucyons, and lett him haue lyme & sande of the seae banke mengled to gether wherwt he shall Ioyne the stonnes, then of them he shall make a place wherin the cercle shall be drawen, and this place shall thus be fashyoned ffyrst lett the cercle be equall wt the earth having in lengthe and brede 14 focte wt in ye which make a croked cercle lyke halfe a cercle higher the~ the other, in length and breade contayning 7. foote, & in heyght .3. ffoote and an halffe, yet be cawse of poverty this place may be made of clene earthe thinke or cley yf it be well purged so that there be no ryft or breke in It, thys done draw 2. cercles wherof the on shall be a footte from the othere and It must be donne wt a new knyffe, and wrytte in the compas the names of the man ded to aryse and when the place for the cercle Is fynished then he that shall worke as I sayde be fore muste be clensyd or purged as Is declared in the first clensinge but yor petycyon must be alteryd or changed, for the wyssard whyle he dothe consecrate the bodye must saye thys ffolowinge
[honzimorib lemogethon Hegemothon Hazathay Hazathar Hazamathar]*
*This last is a muggle addition/adaptation made during transcription. Presumably a confundus was cast on the writer to prevent the body of the spell making its way into the wrong hands.
The note, in Rookwood's handwriting, reads:
Datura Stramonium
Bodies wholly intact
Sub. CaO?
Date: Early Spring 1977
Format: Fragment of a manuscript; note
Relevance: This incomplete page from a restricted muggle manuscript of 1467 was found in Rookwood's lab, and dates his research into Inferi to early 1977, roughly around the time of his recruitment by the Death Eaters.
Archivist's reconstruction:
Off the Appeyring off Ded Bodyes that thay Seme to Aryse Agayne and to Speke or do thy Bydding
Take harde stonnes, and playne in the which there Is neyther hoole nor ryft or ells, tyles specyally made for that purpose, and lett him that shall make them be cleane from all pollucyons, and lett him haue lyme & sande of the seae banke mengled to gether wherwt he shall Ioyne the stonnes, then of them he shall make a place wherin the cercle shall be drawen, and this place shall thus be fashyoned ffyrst lett the cercle be equall wt the earth having in lengthe and brede 14 focte wt in ye which make a croked cercle lyke halfe a cercle higher the~ the other, in length and breade contayning 7. foote, & in heyght .3. ffoote and an halffe, yet be cawse of poverty this place may be made of clene earthe thinke or cley yf it be well purged so that there be no ryft or breke in It, thys done draw 2. cercles wherof the on shall be a footte from the othere and It must be donne wt a new knyffe, and wrytte in the compas the names of the man ded to aryse and when the place for the cercle Is fynished then he that shall worke as I sayde be fore muste be clensyd or purged as Is declared in the first clensinge but yor petycyon must be alteryd or changed, for the wyssard whyle he dothe consecrate the bodye must saye thys ffolowinge
[honzimorib lemogethon Hegemothon Hazathay Hazathar Hazamathar]*
*This last is a muggle addition/adaptation made during transcription. Presumably a confundus was cast on the writer to prevent the body of the spell making its way into the wrong hands.
The note, in Rookwood's handwriting, reads:
Datura Stramonium
Bodies wholly intact
Sub. CaO?