La Muselivre

Plus personne, maintenant, ne pourra douter de l'existence des tapis volants et de l'ignoble complot mis en place pour faire disparaître toute trace de leur existence. Plus personne, maintenant, ne pourra dire que les arnaques littéraires ne sont pas le truc le plus génial inventé depuis la roue  -- pardon, le tapis volant :

"Their existence was denied, their science suppressed, their manufacturers persecuted and any evidence about incidents involving them systematically erased," Abidi writes.
Abidi says Genghis Khan ordered his Mongol hordes to destroy these miraculous inventions, save for one, which he wanted buried with him to journey heavenward.
Pull the other one.
Literary journal Meanjin's chief sub-editor did not twig until he began checking the sources cited by Abidi, whose travelogues the magazine had published previously. On the trail of Australia's latest literary hoax, the sub-editor rang editor-in-chief Ian Brittain.
Brittain laughed and confessed that Abidi was an honourable trickster "taking readers for a ride", in the tradition of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, who created parallel worlds with mock footnotes, imaginary anecdotes and hypothetical texts.