Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 2
The fourth of five cryptograms from chapter 2 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Gobwigdbc,tjgybljbalnowyialbc,tilpjgdrglakonrobaatgljpmognaglsidccbygrjl.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length70 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 2 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Nor were these my only visions. The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors. And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the hard one from chapter 2.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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