diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cfa8c2e79f..65736756bb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     Bug #6282: Laura craft doesn't follow the player character
     Bug #6283: Avis Dorsey follows you after her death
     Bug #6289: Keyword search in dialogues expected the text to be all ASCII characters
+    Bug #6291: Can't pickup the dead mage's journal from the mysterious hunter mod
     Bug #6302: Teleporting disabled actor breaks its disabled state
     Bug #6307: Pathfinding in Infidelities quest from Tribunal addon is broken
     Feature #890: OpenMW-CS: Column filtering
diff --git a/components/compiler/exprparser.cpp b/components/compiler/exprparser.cpp
index 23f15c8bf5..2d525e6f8c 100644
--- a/components/compiler/exprparser.cpp
+++ b/components/compiler/exprparser.cpp
@@ -353,15 +353,21 @@ namespace Compiler
     {
         if (const Extensions *extensions = getContext().getExtensions())
         {
+            char returnType; // ignored
             std::string argumentType; // ignored
             bool hasExplicit = false; // ignored
-            if (extensions->isInstruction (keyword, argumentType, hasExplicit))
+            bool isInstruction = extensions->isInstruction (keyword, argumentType, hasExplicit);
+
+            if(isInstruction || (mExplicit.empty() && extensions->isFunction(keyword, returnType, argumentType, hasExplicit)))
             {
-                // pretend this is not a keyword
                 std::string name = loc.mLiteral;
                 if (name.size()>=2 && name[0]=='"' && name[name.size()-1]=='"')
                     name = name.substr (1, name.size()-2);
-                return parseName (name, loc, scanner);
+                if(isInstruction || mLocals.getType(Misc::StringUtils::lowerCase(name)) != ' ')
+                {
+                    // pretend this is not a keyword
+                    return parseName (name, loc, scanner);
+                }
             }
         }