When Raymond Knowby arrived to his cabin, he began to study and translate his latest find, reading out-loud and recording a passage that awoke an evil spirit in the woods surrounding the cabin, causing his wife to become possessed by a Deadite. At some point between the time-displaced Ash taking the book to the castle and Professor Knowby rediscovering it, a handful of pages were torn out of the book and hidden in the ruins castle, with Annie Knowby finding them after her father and mother returned to their cabin. Raymond and his wife Henrietta took the book and dagger back to their cabin in the mountains and left their daughter Annie to continue her work at the archaeological site. Long after the castle was abandoned by the knights and kings, the ruined castle was where Professor Raymond Knowby, Henrietta Knowby, Annie Knowby, and Ed Getley discovered the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the early to mid-1980's. The Necronomicon and Kandarian Dagger, perfectly preserved in the ruins of Castle Kandar ( Evil Dead II). Rediscovery In The 20th Century File:NecronomiconKandarianDaggerED2.JPG Shortly after Ash brought the book to the castle, Evil Ash and his 'Army of Darkness' attacked the castle, wanting to take The Necronomicon and use it to conquer the world, but the combined armies of Lord Arthur and ] defeated them. In 1300 AD, the time-displaced Ash Williams journeyed to this graveyard and took the real book back to Castle Kandar, where it was locked away in a tower for many years. These three copies were eventually discovered in a graveyard in modern England (although how these books ended up in this graveyard is unknown). It is unknown how many copies and variations of the Necronomicon were written by The Dark Ones themselves before their banishment to the Mirror Dimension by the first Chosen One, but at least three are known to exist. Written in the book were prophecies, funerary incantations, and demon resurrection passages. Another account suggest that the book's cover comes from the flesh of a powerful demon who had more control over the Deadites than The Dark Ones did. One account claims that the book was created in a temple somewhere in what would be considered modern Egypt, using miscellaneous parts of skin from various humans who failed to obey The Dark Ones to create the cover. It was this blood that was used to ink the book's pages. The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis was written by one of The Dark Ones long ago, back when the they ruled the Earth and the seas ran red with blood. 2.2.3 Concealment From Supernatural Entities.2 Passages, Abilities, & Characteristics.1.5 The Living Manifestation of The Book.

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