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THE DANCING MEN ALPHABET

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SYMBOLS

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THE DANCING MEN

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ALPHABET

INTRODUCTION

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated by codes and he used them as the central plot device of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Dancing Men.

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The Adventure of the Dancing Men is a short story published in The Strand Magazine in december 1903.

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IT is the 30th Sherlock Holmes story, Collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

ThE adventure of the dancing men

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In the story, landowner Hilton Cubitt, and his new American wife Elsie, start receiving strange messages.The messages show dancing men with arms and legs in differing positions and carrying flags. Their arrival causes Elsie much distress and Cubitt seeks SHerlock's help.

ThE adventure of the dancing men

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Sherlock realises the message uses a simple substitution cipher where a letter is always represented by the same dancing man: The alphabet is a simple character substitution. He uses a technique called frequency analysis to decipher the message. In English, the most common letters used are E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, and L and so an analysis of which stickmen are used most frequently can be used to decipher the message.

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Each symbol may have two forms: a dancing man and the same dancing man holding a flag to represent the separation of two words. In his manuscript, Conan Doyle used 18 symbols for the 18 letters needed in his cyphers. 8 letters (F, J, K, Q, U, W, X, Z) were not used and then have no known symbols. Note that P and V have almost the same dancing man symbol (in the V the foot is slightly sloping to the left).

Dancing man symbols

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the alphabet was completed by Aage Rieck Sørensen, who also added numerals. Try it out !

Dancing man COMPLETE ALPHABET

ThE Strand

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The Strand Magazine is a British monthly magazine published from 1891 to 1950

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a huge contributor with novels, short stories, poems and articles.

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TIMELINE

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Las señoritas de Avignon,

Pablo Picasso

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L’atelier rouge

Henri Matisse

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Las pléyades

Max Ernst

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La persistencia de la memoria

Salvador Dalí

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