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Harvard confirms century-old book is covered in human skin

05
Jun
2014

Harvard owns a book thats bound in human skin. One of its curators announced today that tests on a book titled Des destinées de l’ame (Destinies of The Soul), which was published sometime in the 1880s, have confirmed with 99.9 percent confidence that its been bound in human skin. The book has been sitting in Harvards Houghton Library since the 1930s and has had a note inside it from the donor, who explains that he had the book bound in human skin. In French, translated by Harvard, he wrote:

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