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Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible)

https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa Codex Gigas is the book, what is located in Stockholm, and actually, it's in the National Library. The book is very big, and it was bought to Sweden during the 30-years war. It claimed to made by a single monk and the process took only one night, and sometimes that book claimed to written by the devil himself. There is, of course, one very good explanation for the short writing process, and that is, that every monk in Bohemia took a part in the writing process. If there were hundreds of writers, would the process take a very short time, and this might be a good explanation for that one night period. And in fact, the book might be written during the longer period and the head of the monks would only be accepted those texts before they put in that book. Then the book might be only bound in that night, but the texts, what are in it have remained secret. There is a picture of the devil in the crouch and somebody have claimed,