Preface

The Sisters of Serica is a group of women explorers that might very well be active today. The nature of their group has been connected to thaumaturgic and cartographic activities.

They published two books. One book of poetry entitled Myorca (1959), and the other, the strange recipe book, Bread and Bones(1968), which contained such recipies as "Fuffin Muffins" and "Crumpy Cakes." The text and illustrations contain some form of code, but these books are now so rare there isn't even a record of a copy in any collection, public or private.

In June of 1974, Doug Montgomery wrote an article for the Ohio Newsling Press about the Sisters of Serica and somehow obtained the pictures shown here. Montgomery disappeared without a trace on October 31, 1974.

History of the Sisters

Little is known about the history of the SOS and the living members are sworn to secrecy. Serica appears on some older maps in various places, including Greek and Etruscan antiquities. The actual physical location is not known.

One or more of the sisters may be related to Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir, one of the earliest female explorers. There is some evidence to suggest there may be an ancestral tie to a more recent explorer, Alexandra David-Neel. According to Montgomery's article they found her exploits to be a profound inspiration and fondly referred to her as "Sister Alexandra."

Gudridur The Explorer

Called “the greatest female explorer of all time” by the president of Iceland, Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir traveled to the New World 500 years before Columbus made his voyage.

Three years in Vinland, during which time scholars believe the group traveled as far south as Manhattan if not further, she was the first woman to bear a child of European descent in what was later called America.

Upon returning to Europe she walked to Rome to give the Vatican a first-person account of her journeys.

Alexandra David-Neel
Mystic Explorer

Alexandra David was born in Paris, on the 24th of October 1868. As a child her favorite author was Jules Verne, and she promised herself one day to outdo the heroes of these stories.

By the age of fifteen Alexandra had already begun to study music, at this time she also obtained her first occult reading matter, an English journal produced by the Society of the Supreme Gnosis.

An opera singer and a scholar of eastern religion and Sanskrit who, in the 1920s, traveled for four months to become the first Western woman to reach Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa. Disguised as a pilgrim, and accompanied only by a young Sikkimese lama, she traveled by mule, yak and horse. She would make a total of five journeys to Tibet and adopt a Nepalese boy who later accompanied her on many of her travels.

She wrote several books and lived to be 101 years old.