Pages taken from the Journals of Samuel Lovegrove:
This journal was bequeathed to me by a mysterious uncle that I never knew I had, and in its pages I discovered a world of the strange and mysterious – the world that Samuel Lovegrove made his own…
The Pigpen Cipher
“Not being a freemason I was unfamiliar with this cipher until I came across a strange script on a gravestone and my good friend Eugene explained to me how it works.
This is in fact a very simple substitution cipher that was first used by freemasons in the early 1700s for private correspondence and to keep their records secret. At as result of this it is often known as the Masonic cipher or Freemason’s cipher.
The cipher works by exchanging letters for the symbols shown on a grid. The key, shown here, is very simple.
For example:
Keep careful watch! You never know where these coded messages might appear!”
© Kate Kelly 2009
I will develop these pages on the Strange and Bizarre as part of my Myth Making promotion plan.