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CarmenZwanenburg t1_jdiwnor wrote

This happened to me! I was reading a book by Marguerite Yourcenar, I'm not sure what the title in English is (I'm not a native english speaker), I think it would be something like The Dark Book or The Book in Black. It's about a 15th century alchemist who deals with occultism. There are many witchcraft/occultist religious themes, and it's very creepy. It's not even a horror book tbh, it's historical fiction, but I found the whole thing to be very unsettling. One day, while reading the book, I ended up falling asleep. I had an extremely vivid lucid dream where a witch locked me up in some sort of satanist, creepy dungeon and told me I'd never wake up again. It was so real and scary and when I was finally able to wake up, I tossed The Dark Book in a corner of the room and didn't pick it up again for nearly a year. It took me about a year to gather the courage to finish it. I'm pretty sure this book is cursed.

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