The Witch's Prayer, a Latin
word-unit palindrome which Dmitri Borgmann claimed to have discovered in the 14th century tome
The Complete Manual of Witchcraft, published in Belfast, Ireland. Read forward (top left),
it offers encouraging religious advice, but when read in reverse (top right), it endorses sin.
The first anagram is an approximate translation of the original prayer;
the second anagram translates the prayer in reverse, and is also a word-unit anagram of the
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Delicias fuge ne frangaris crimine, verum
Coelica tu quaeras, ne male dispereas;
Respicias tua, non cujusvis quaerito gesta
Carpere, sed laudes, nec preme veridicos;
Judicio fore te praesentem conspice toto
Tempore: nec Christum, te rogo, despicias;
Salvificum pete, nec secteris daemona, Christum
Dilige, nequaquam tu mala concupito.
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Concupito mala, tu nequaquam dilige Christum;
Daemona secteris, nec pete salvificum;
Despicias, rogo te, Christum: nec tempore toto
Conspice praesentem te fore judicio;
Veridicos preme, nec laudes, sed carpere gesta
Quaerito cujusvis, non tua respicias.
Dispereas male, ne quaeras tu coelica, verum
Crimine frangaris, ne fuge delicias.
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Never acquiesce to salacious copulation, as crime ensues; pursue God,
so as to die in ideal peace; practise quiet circumspection; never disparage,
tease, quarrel, accuse people, or parade unjust criticism; never forget meet
judgment is imminent; acclaim the Crucified; desist from pursuing a daemon;
never acquiesce to amoral mischief.
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Acquiesce to amoral mischief; never desist from pursuing a daemon; forget
to acclaim the Crucified, as meet judgment is never imminent; parade unjust
criticism, disparage, tease, accuse people; never acquiesce to peace or
circumspection so quiet; die in quarrel; never pursue God; practise ideal
crime, as salacious copulation ensues.
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