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Artefacts

A stylised dried Enjuin-type ningyo with small pointed teeth, both hands raised beside its face and a curled fish body in a shadowed storage box; an editorial interpretation of a manufactured artefact, with sculpted rib-like folds rather than an exposed human skeleton

Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

A Japanese temple’s mermaid mummy was said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, until scientific tests exposed the secret behind its uncanny body.

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An imagined Elizabethan scholar holds a black obsidian mirror reflecting his shadowed face beside a candle, evoking the occult reputation of John Dee’s mirror rather than reconstructing an authenticated event

Case file 035Ancient Mysteries

The Devil’s Looking Glass

A black mirror linked to John Dee’s angelic experiments has Mexican origins, but the evidence tying it to the English magician remains incomplete.

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Artefacts

Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

The Devil’s Looking Glass

The truth is in here

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