Boduen de Kurtene's journal

Boduen de Kurtene's journal is a book in providing information about the liho's curse. It is given to the witcher by Bedwyr.
== Journal entry ==
: Nothing but my sense of responsibility toward the sciences forces me to expose my thoughts upon these pages, and terrible they are.
: It follows me everywhere I go, that horrible apparition. At the market, in the inn, on the road - I hear whispers. The worst nightmares still seem better than reality, and I can no longer trust reality. I don't leave the house. I avoid all contact with people. No more research.
: It's the amulet.
: This damned amulet, given to me by that scoundrel with the intellect of a daft hen, is cursed. Come to think of it, he was acting peculiarly as he offered me this paltry payment for some research. I tried to throw the amulet away, to no avail. It instantly reappered in my hand.
: I thought to ask my colleague Kol for help in finding answers. When I opened my mouth to mention the amulet or its curse, my tongue rolled, and my vocal cords seized up. I cannot speak of the curse. It is physically impossible.
: The curse manifests as chronic exhaustion and weakness. I also experience powerful visual and auditory hallucinations. The latter are by far the most distracting. I've learned to ignore the former, especially since, like mirages, as soon as you near them, they usually disappear. It is the fatigue and the weakness that shall be the death of me unless I rid myself of this curse.
: What disgusts me is the thought that I shall have to spring the amulet on some unfortunate individual, as my predecessor did to me. It is simply not right.
: I've found a loophole.
: I showed Kol this journal. Turns out the prohibition has no bearing on writing. Could it be that the curse predates literacy?
: Recently I've developed a terrible cough. Is this symptomatic of the curse?
: Six weeks of researching cursed objects together - shuffling papers, sifting through every major library in Novigrad - has led Kol and me to the following conclusions:
: - The curse's source is a monster of some type, likely a liho. Its defeat is of the utmost import. An ordinary person has no chance against such a creature, so, soon as I've learned all the details, I shall have to hire a witcher.
: - In order to lure the monster from the object, the object must be subjected to heat as well as the smoke of burning leshen moss and cowbane.
: - Discarding the amulet after defeating the liho will stop the curse's effects.
: - Extremely important: under no circumstances is the amulet to be thrown away at the place where the monster was bested. This will allow the curse to return, though it will not happen right away. The shortest reasonably safe distance is about one thousand paces.
: I am coughing blood. It is the consumption, also known as tuberculosis. I am uncertain if it is the curse's effect - it may just as simply be due to lack of sleep and weakened defenses. I am very weak. I am not fit enough to find a witcher before it is too late. An act of desperation led me to accept Kol's proposition. He'd agreed to continue my work, but giving him the amulet was as if I'd attempted to discard it: it promptly returned to my hand.
: I must pass it on to an innocent person. May the gods protect him.
: Final instructions:
: 1. Pass the amulet on to an unsuspecting witcher.
: 2. Acquire leshen moss and cowbane.
: 3. Grind and mix the ingredients.
: 4. Light a fire.
: 5. Throw the amulet and the mixture of moss and bane into the fire.
: 6. Defeat the liho.
: 7. Discard the amulet, ideally at least one thousand paces from where the liho was defeated.
== Associated quest ==
*Evil Never Sleeps
pl:Dziennik Boduena de Kurtene
Category:The Witcher Monster Slayer books