The front of Knock's note from Count Orlok.
The back of Knock's note from Count Orlok.
Count Orlok reading Knock's reply.
These are really quite striking and fairly complex. Of great interest to me are the magic squares, the boxes with number like symbols in them. There are also some pictograms (snakes, crosses, a skull) as well as traditional Zodiac signs, but most are probably gibberish. But what if they aren't...
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Well, I just spent about an hour wandering around the Internet to see if people had already figured this out. Apparently, the set designer for Nosferatu, Albin Grau, was an occultist and friend of Aleister Crowley. The Wikipedia article notes that the symbols on these letters resemble Enochian, the language invented/discovered by 16th century English occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley. So there may indeed be "real magic" in the letters between Knock and Count Orlok. The investigation will continue, later, as well as solutions to the real problem - if these are spells, how do they sound?
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