r/DeeCiphers

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Ciphers Based on the Textual Encoding Invented or Popularized by John Dee

r/DeeCiphers

DeeCiphers are encoded messages in Elizabethan to Confederate-Era (and later) Books, Pamphlets and Newspapers that are encoding using the same, or almost the same, set of rules laid down by John Dee.

Created Sep 10, 2017 · restricted

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Dee Ciphers are found in a variety of works: The Douay-Rheims Bible, Shakespeare (in particular the Tempest and The Phoenix and the Turtle), Mark Twain (in particular his travel writings and Tom Sawyer), Charles Dodgson and in the writings of some of the Inklings (in particular C.S. Lewis).

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