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A demon's lines are printed in a book, not described. Printed like a script, waiting for someone to stand in the right place at the right time and say the other half back. Whoever made this book was so certain that the thing would
Exploring a mysterious 300-year-old demon summoning book linked to a 2020 London murder and its dark origins.
Key Takeaways
- The book is a real historical artifact with a unique scripted demon summoning format.
- Lucifus RoofCal is a demon created by the book, with no prior demonology references.
- The book's cheap mass production contributed to its widespread influence and legend.
- The demon's name appearing in a 2020 murder case shows the book's continuing dark cultural impact.
- Legends about the book's supernatural properties are unverified but contribute to its mystique.
What the video covers
- The video examines a rare book printed in 1823 containing a demon's scripted lines meant to be spoken to summon it.
- The demon named Lucifus RoofCal, created by the book, is described as the prime minister of hell with no prior historical references.
- The book includes a pact offering money for 20 years in exchange for the summoner's soul, with strict summoning rules.
- The book was mass-produced cheaply in 18th-century France, making it widely accessible and disposable.
- Legends surround the book, including claims it is indestructible, devil-written, and locked in the Vatican, though none are verified.
- The demon's name was found at a 2020 double murder scene in London, linking the book to real-world events.
- Historical tracing shows the book is not ancient but a product of early mass media printing in Europe.
- The video highlights the book's unique nature as a 'doorway' rather than a mere description of demons.
- The story includes documented legal cases related to the book's trade and influence in the 20th century.
- The video concludes that the book created the demon and its legend, which outlived the physical copies.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to the Demon and the Book
- 01:25The Demon Lucifus RoofCal and Its Origins
- 02:43The Pact and Summoning Ritual Details
- 04:42The Book's Historical Background and Printing
- 06:19Legends and Myths Surrounding the Book
- 08:07Spread of the Book and Its Influence
- 13:54Modern Legal Cases and Cultural Impact
- 16:212020 London Double Murder Connection
- 18:22Conclusion: The Book's Legacy and Final Thoughts
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actually answer that they had set his side of the conversation in type 300 years ago. The book is small and cheap. It was built to be read twice and thrown away. People have been passing it around for three centuries. And in the summer of 2020,
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the name printed in this book was found at the scene of a double murder in London on a contract signed in blood with one line left empty.
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I'm Luke from Spare Key. This is my little buddy here. And this is the book that came from hell. In all seriousness, before we start, there's just three things we have to go through. The first one, the book is
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real. The photos you're about to see in this video are from the book itself, printed in 1823. The court case at the end of the video is also real. Those documents are coming soon. And some of what people say about this book is
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legend. So, when we get to that part, I'll be sure to let you know. Lastly, there's a name in this book that gets said a lot. Be sure to pay close attention to what it does to you as I'm saying it. To understand what that name
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was doing at a murder scene in 2020, you have to go back to where it was born.
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Not in scripture, not in some ancient ruin, in ink. The demon in this book has a name. Lucifus RoofCal. Lucifus comes from the Latin word for fleeing the light. The one who runs from the sun. The thing that only moves when
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it's dark. Rocal is harder to explain. Some readers think it's an anagram, the name of an older demon Focalore with its letters shifted around. Others think it hides the word Lucifer spelled backwards and buried inside. Nobody is completely sure. The book is
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very specific about who he is. It says he's the prime minister of hell, invested by Lucifer himself, put in charge of hell's government with the wealth and the treasures of the world under his hand. Lesser demons answer to
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him by name. Beal, Agarez, Marbas, the middle management of the pit. And he does not like being called upon. The book describes him as reluctant, obstinate, the thing that you have to drag into the room whether it wants to
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come or not. And before this book, that name barely exists anywhere. Dig through the older demonology, the medieval catalogues of hell, the grimoires that supposedly came centuries before. Everything people believed was down there in the dark and he is not in any of it. There is no ancient Lucifocal,
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no older traditions to trace him to. Real occultists picked him up and passed him along as if he'd always been there. But the book didn't record him. The book created him. A demon who owes his entire existence to a printing press. In the
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book, the summoner asks him for money. Not power, not knowledge, money. And the demon who holds the world's treasure says, "No, at least not for free. Except thou dost give thyself over to me in 20 years to do with thy body and soul as I
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please." 20 years. That's the deal. 20 years of getting whatever you asked for and then the bill comes due and the bill is you. And the terms are oddly specific, almost bureaucratic. You set aside one coin for him on the
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first Monday of each month. You don't call him more than once a week. You only summon him between 10 at night and 2:00 in the morning.
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A man named Wait had translated the whole thing into English back in 1911. He had read the contract closely and called its wording designedly evasive.
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Even the man who translated it thought it was built to trap whoever signed. So, I'm not going to walk you through how to do this ritual. That's not the point of this video, and it's not something I'm going to just hand out to the internet.
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But picture the shape of it for just a second because the book is very particular about that. It's somewhere with no one around. A ruin, the text says far enough out that nobody hears you. It's after 10 at night and before
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2:00 in the morning. These are his hours. You're the one standing there. The book calls you the carcest. And you have gone to a great deal of trouble to be at that spot at that hour. And then you say your part and the book
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has already printed what answers you and that's what separates this from every other book about demons. The rest of them are descriptions. This one is a doorway that somebody left open. And then it does something I've not seen
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anywhere else. The demon signs the pact himself in advance before anyone has agreed to a thing. Take up thy pact, he says. I have signed it. His name is already at the bottom of the page. The only line still empty is yours.
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But before we follow it out into the world, look at the date on the first page. Different editions claim they were written in 1421 or 1521 or 1522.
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The introduction credits a man named Antonio Delabbbina who says he copied it out of the lost writings of King Solomon himself.
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None of that holds up. Owen Davies, who wrote the standard history of these books, traces the real thing to the early 1700s, with the mass market version turning up around 1750, not Solomon, not the 1400s. The dates were fake. The author was
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fake. The demon's signature printed on the last page, that one stayed in every edition.
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To understand why that signature was still finding hands 300 years later, you have to understand something. This book was never rare. That was the whole horror of it. The printing it came out of is called the Biblotech Blah, the Blue Library. Starting in the 1600s, printers in a
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French town called Tr began turning out cheap little books wrapped in the same blue sugar paper they used for packaging. Badly printed, disposable, the paperbacks of their day, and peddlers carried them out on foot out of the cities and into the villages, one pack at a time. Historians call it the
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beginning of mass media in France. Fairy tales, almanacs, saints' lives, and tucked in among them magic, books for calling up the dead, or books for calling up something worse. Because they were cheap, people read them to pieces and then threw them out. The throwaway magic books are some of the rarest
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things going, precisely because nobody thought one was worth keeping. And the printers covered their tracks. Fake dates on the covers, fake cities, fake names. One imprint claims it was printed by the Bingo brothers of Lyon at the sign of a Grippa, a publisher that never existed. The book
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was lying about itself before you even opened it. By around 1800, the same core text got a new coat of paint and a scarier name.
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The Dragon Rouge, the Red Dragon, and a close cousin, Levatable Dragon Rouge, the True Red Dragon, as if there were fakes going around. And, well, there were. As I said in the beginning of this video, a lot of what's surrounding these books are legend stories, and the
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following is not documented as source. But I think it's important that you understand this going into it because what surrounded these books, the stories told, are half of what make them as dangerous as they are. People said the
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book wasn't written by a person at all. That the devil dictated it himself to a man who wrote it down while something else moved his hand. People said the one true original never turns up for sale because it's locked inside the Vatican's
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secret archives, kept by the church that supposedly owns it. And people said that the book cannot be destroyed, that it won't burn, can't be cut or torn, that a copy dropped in fire will just sit in the flames and refuse to burn.
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None of it is documented and none of it needed to be. The book didn't have to be devil written or Vatican-owned or fireproof to do what people were terrified it could do. It only had to be printed cheap and everywhere. And that's
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exactly what happened. Through the 1800s, underground printings moved across France and down into Italy, passed hand to hand and sold under the counter. Then French ships carried it further across t
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comes in. And it has a reputation to match. Some people, the stories say, would not keep a copy under their roof. And in every crate, [music] on every dock, the same page, his greeting, his terms, his signature, waiting for a counter signature. Then a man in Chicago turned the whole trade
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into a business. His name was Lauron Delorence, and his company, Dolores Scott and Company, was a mail order occult empire. You could sit in a village in Jamaica or Trinidad, mail off a coupon, and a few weeks later, a book
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of spells would land at your doorstep. Delaware was a shameless thief. He pirated off of other people's occult books wholesale, weights included. And it worked. In West Africa and the Caribbean, his name became legend. In Jamaica, Delaware stopped being a person and turned into a word. It just meant
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magic or obia. And every parcel that went out carried the same passenger. Whatever else was in the catalog, the pact was in there. And so was the name Lucif Rafo crossed the Atlantic in the mail. A few hundred copies at a time,
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sitting in sacks on the decks of ships, addressed to people who had never even heard of France. Obia, the African rooted folk religion of the enslaved, had been illegal in Jamaica since 1760, banned after a huge uprising whose leaders had Obia men advising them. The
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colonial government was frightened of it, so they criminalized it. And for a long time, the punishment included flogging. That fear got written down, and it never came off the page. To this day, Jamaica's custom rules still ban word for word all publications of Dolorence Scott and Company of Chicago
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relating to divination, magic, cultism, or supernatural arts. The ban went up during the war in 1940, and when Prime Minister Michael Manley cleared most of the country's ban books off the list in the 1970s, he left the Delaware ban standing. It is still standing to this day. Diana
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Patton, who studies history just like this, found that these laws worked to prop up colonial power and to harass poor people, and that the wording is just broad enough to catch almost any faith that uses objects. In one case in
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1928, a man named Zachariah Kerr got nine months over some saltwater, three lamps, and five shillings. There were real convictions tied to the trade. A man named Daniel Young in Trinidad in 1931, a woman named Cindy Brooks in Jamaica 1964.
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both caught with Dolores's books, though those cases were about his catalog, not the red dragon by name. The fear was always the states, and it was aimed at people it wanted to control. Obia, Vadu, Hyian folk faith, these are living
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religions with real people in them right now. Even so, a book so feared that owning the catalog it came in is right now against the law. For 300 years, though, this thing had a weakness. It needed paper. It needed a printer, a
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press, a ship, a shelf, and a buyer. To reach you at all, it had to physically exist somewhere near you. You had to find the book. And there's a part of this I can't tell you because nobody can. In all that time across all those
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printings in France, Italy, Haiti, Jamaica, we have no idea who ever opened it and went through it. Not a name, not a number, not a single account of what anyone asked for or what they got. [music] Three centuries of a book with instructions in it. and the record is
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empty. But then somebody photographed the pages and put them online. Once one copy was up there, it stopped mattering how many paper ones were left in the world or whoever owned them or what any government had banned. A book
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that had spent 300 years needing a ship and a shelf and a buyer stopped needing any of that in an afternoon. and his line went with it. Still printed, still waiting on a screen now in 300year-old French, sitting in front
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of whoever scrolled down far enough at 2 in the morning. Lo, I am here.
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What do thou seek of me? The object had been the whole danger, and now the object was irrelevant. The name was loose. June 2020, London. two sisters, Biba Henry and Nicole Smallman.
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They went to a park one evening to celebrate. Biba was 46, a social worker.
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Nicole was 27, a photographer. It was Biba's birthday. Friends came, and as the night wound down, the friends had slowly drifted home, and the two sisters stayed on together in the dark under a string of fairy lights dancing.
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There's a photo of them taken at 13 minutes past 1 in the morning, laughing.
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13 minutes later, someone who didn't know the passcode was trying to get into Bipa's phone. That someone was an 18-year-old named Danielle Hussein. They had never met him. He was a stranger, and he killed them both. and Nicole
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fought him hard enough to wound his hand and draw blood. That blood is what caught him. Their bodies were found the next day by Nicole's boyfriend, who went looking when they didn't come home. When police searched the house had lived in,
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they found a piece of paper he'd written out and folded up. He called it an agreement. It was addressed at the top to the mighty king Lucifuj Rafocal, the same name, the one the book invented. He promised to sacrifice
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women, six of them, every 6 months, for as long as he stayed free and able. He promised to build the demon a temple. And in return, he wanted to win the Megaillions super jackpot. It was then worth hundreds of millions. He folded
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three lottery tickets into the page. He signed his first name at the bottom in his own blood, and he left the line beneath it blank, a space kept clear for the demon to sign back. At his trial, Hussein refused to give
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evidence. He was convicted of both murders. When the judge, Mrs. Justice Whipple sentenced him. She spoke to him directly in the early hours of Saturday 6, June 2020. She said, "You brutally murdered Nicole Smallman and Biba Henry." And then she added, "You had found these two
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women. You were a stranger to them. You surprised them. You terrified them. You killed them." She gave him life with a minimum of 35 years. The detective who led the case, Simon Harding, said it was almost movieike and that he was totally convinced
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Hussein would have gone on to kill again. Another detective on the case, Maria Green, called him a dangerous, arrogant, and violent individual who from the outset showed no remorse. Their mother, Mina Smallman, a retired Ark deacon, said that if her daughter's killer had not been caught, four
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[snorts] other families may have been suffering what we have. Because he had promised more. He had written it down. Two of the police officers sent to guard the sisters bodies took photographs of them and passed the pictures around in
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WhatsApp groups where the two dead women were called and I quote dead birds. Both officers went to prison for it. Mina called it a betrayal of catastrophic proportions. Biba and Nicole were failed at nearly every step even after death. Danielle Hussein is in prison. And a BBC
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investigation later found that for 2 years, right up until hours before his arrest, he'd been a member of an online forum run by an American who builds himself as a black magician. A man whose published material names the same demon
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and lays out these same blood packs for wealth and power. The word the BBC used for the connection was influence. There's no evidence that these two ever met or spoke. The man was not charged in connection with the murders. And when
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reporters put questions to him, he didn't answer them. His pages were taken down from Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. And that is everything the record will support about the man who did this and about the man whose material he was reading. But before I finish, I wanted to give the last words
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to them. Biba Henry was 46. She was a social worker. Nicole Smallman was 27. She was a photographer. The two of them were sisters. And when the party ended and everyone went home, the two of them decided to stay out
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under the lights together. Their mother has not stopped saying their names since they died. She has said them in front of cameras, in front of courtrooms, and she is still saying them to this day. Ba Henry, Nicole Smallman, they went out that day to celebrate a birthday, and they should
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have been able to come home. No old book, no invented demon, and definitely not a contract written in somebody else's blood changes that for a second.
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That book was never even in the courtroom. There was no grimmooire on his shelf, nothing handed down, nothing hidden in a drawer. He had never held a copy in his life. The demon reached him anyway.
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300 years after a cheap French pamphlet made him up and gave him a name. That name found an 18-year-old in London who had never opened the book it came from.
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By then, the name didn't need the book at all. And every legend we started with, the devil's hand, the copy in the Vatican, the fire that won't take, none of it had to be true. A cheap book invented a demon. And the demon outlived
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the book. You don't need a rare edition or a dealer or an address. You need the name I've been saying the whole video typed in the search bar you use to look up weather. That's the whole barrier it takes to find. The page loads in about a
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second. It's the real page photographed out of a 300year-old book and his greeting is sitting there in the middle of it in 300year-old French waiting.
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Some of you are going to do that tonight. Not most of you, but some. and you'll scroll down to the bottom of the pack and you'll see what everybody who has ever opened this book has seen. His name is already in there signed in
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advance 300 years ago, but something that was never supposed to exist. And that line above it is still empty. He's been waiting all that time for somebody to fill it in. And some of them did. I'm absolutely obsessed with this
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thing. So, if it's your first time checking me out, thanks for stopping by. If you haven't seen my other videos, you can find them linked here, here, and here. And I post every Wednesday. Thanks so much, and feel free to leave a
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comment to let me know what you thought down below. Have a great rest of your day. Bye-bye.
Topics:demonologyLucifus RoofCaloccult bookdemon summoningSpareKeyThe Book That Came From Hellmass media historymurder case 2020occult legendshistorical grimoires
