Why does a gallows character start almost every page?

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Example of the long "S" sign for Latin "SCH".
To be seen somewhat differently today.
Hard to find, very rarely in use. Just a handful of words in Latin begin with an "Sch".
I suspect that there is also a sign for this in the VM.

Hi, Aga, can you tell me what the words in Latin mean? Are they really Latin? They sound like Slovenian to me.  I had examined many Latin manuscripts and I had not encounter a single long s. They are common in Tubingen House Buch and I Swabian manuscripts.
The long s was used in all three writing conventions for Slovenian words, however most of the time, there was no distinction. When Slovenian language was somewhat standardized, long s was used for z  and the combination of long s and z for ž. But even then, the spelling was not consistent.
   

As you can see, there was no long s in the 10th century Freising Manuscript, but the Czeck author used it in the Stična Codex wich was contemporary to Voynich Manuscript. There is no long S in the Voynich Manuscript - sv/zv ligatures and the letters s or z are used. There is also no z with a tail, but normal Latin z, which is similar to h or c and.