Book, Équinoxe Divisé
- French, by Ghyslain D’Aramitz, 1807. Octavo, soft calf leather binding, pages untrimmed.
- Recovered by Basile Lerouc from the secret room in the basement of the Penhew Foundation.
- He started reading it on 25 February 1925.
- The book is an account of a French merchant, colonial administrator and explorer telling of his experiences travelling around the world, with particular chapters devoted to cataloguing and comparing regional customs and beliefs in Northern Africa, Asia and Europe. D’Aramitz relishes in describing what appear to be outlandish (possibly fictional) practices concerning farming and hunting; however, these are interspersed with dramatic and chilling folk customs that have the ring of authenticity. A number of apparent medieval rituals, stemming from the south of France, are shown to have dark and murderous origins.