Also known as the Theban alphabet, this script is of unclear origin. It first appears in a Latin manuscript in the sixteenth century, in which the author claims that it was created by a man named Honorius of Thebes about five hundred years earlier. The letters in the witches' alphabet correspond to Latin letters, so it can be used to simply transcribe Latin or English.
Honorius may or may not have been a real person, but his influence lives on: Gerald Gardner, the creator of Wicca, encouraged use of the alphabet by modern Wiccan practitioners in the 1950s. Today, many Wiccans use it to mask the meanings of secret spells and texts.
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