Librum autem Carnes
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SCP-XXXX before containment by the Foundation, photographed by a police officer

Original File: December 23rd 1976

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be stored in a safe deposit box at site-64, no observation of SCP-XXXX is to be done and no one is to check SCP-XXXX, only a sensor is to be installed inside the safe deposit box so that if SCP-XXXX disappears or is stolen, then personnel knows.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a 28cm by 23cm by 6cm occult book known by its later name in Latin “Librum autem Carnes” which can be translated to “Book of Flesh”, but its original name is unknown. When observing SCP-XXXX within 2 meters, the subject observing it will automatically want to “read” the inside of SCP-XXXX, if there is some obstacle between SCP-XXXX and the subject observing it, they will attempt to combat the obstacle (even if it will terminate them). But when attempting to describe the inside of SCP-XXXX when reading it, the subject will only talk gibberish, when asking what they meant, they will respond with a variation of “nothing” or “flesh”. After 5 minutes of closing SCP-XXXX the subject reading it will collapse for 2 hours, in those 2 hours the subject will “reverse” to a previous state before reading the book. For example, if the subject got a scar in-between reading SCP-XXXX they will no longer have that scar, and the same goes for memories. Only one person known to the Foundation that can read SCP-XXXX without those effects, referred as “Qui Legit” or “The Reader” from Latin, is largely uncooperative with personnel so what SCP-XXXX contains is unknown.

Addendum.1.XXXX: SCP-XXXX was found by police in an abandoned building on the 27th of December 1973 in Surahammar, Sweden, and was contained in a plastic bag with chains surrounding it, the police were notified after someone called them complaining of a loud screaming from a woman coming for the building. The SCP Foundation was contacted by an insider (working for the Foundation) in the police force that rescued SCP-XXXX later that day after noticing the strange effect after the police opened the plastic bag revealing SCP-XXXX.