Corpus Tamrielicum - The Imperial Library

290 2. THE ELDER SCROLLS CHAPTER 2: DAGGERFALL
[51] {A Perfidious Document} 1
Among the more fiendish practices of the {...} is the rite they perform in honor {...}. The
flesh of a newborn infant is boiled over the flames of burning brimstone for three and a half
days until it is hard and leathery. The resultant fiber is sewn over the head of a black cat, who
is kept in a cage until it has chewed through the caul or has died of suffocation. If the cat dies,
the witches know that {...} will not answer their entreaties, but if the cat lives, {...} may ask
{...} for anything -- the death or mutilation of princes, economic catastrophe, famine, plague,
war ...
1 Actually, the following text is described as "parchment" in game and untitled.