Harry Potter Morning Light

If a townsman has nothing to do, ask a countryman from the provinces who came to Paris what is the proudest thing in your life, and they will ignore him nine times out of ten.

When people in the city look forward to rural life after watching the idyllic love, those who come from the "pastoral" try to find a way to take root in the city. The pragmatic nature of rural people makes them value more practical things. There is that It's better to sell more things than to spend time chatting, save more money to buy a house in the city, and end the wandering life early. Just like the boatman who carried the philosopher across the river, he may not know what philosophy and mathematics are, but he can swim, and he was still on the boat when a huge wave knocked the philosopher over in the river, so he can swim leisurely. Discuss the "value of life" with a philosopher who can't swim.

In "The Great Gatsby", my father once said this sentence: When you want to criticize others, you must know that not everyone has your favorable conditions.

Half a century ago, when Giles Corey first came to the New World, he was a poor and white pauper. He stole when he was not guarding the warehouse, and guarded himself when it was his turn to guard things. He lied in court and had sex with men. Teachers fought and were prosecuted multiple times for affray and disorderly conduct. In 1676 he beat a thief so badly with a stick, then pretended that the young man had fallen himself, and the thief died of his injuries a few days later.

Giles would pull down fences and scare horses, sell goods like Sarah Good, and even the sons-in-law who married his daughter resented the father-in-law.

However, it was such a person who changed from an empty-handed poor man to a prominent figure in Salem, and even became a member of the Salem Church in 1691. Someone mentioned his story at the beginning of his membership. Notorious history.

Again, when you want to criticize others, know that not everyone has your favorable conditions. People are like that and want to keep their public image clean, being associated with famous virtuous people makes bystanders feel big, and being a churchgoer with someone like Cory makes one feel like a fly. After entering good milk, it is not poisonous, but it looks disgusting. The price of a glass of good milk suddenly dropped, making people lose the desire to drink it.

People who used unclean means to get up in the past often hoped to be clean, even if the pure water used to "baptize" him would become dirty because of him, he would not hesitate.

But even a man like Giles Corey would have to accept the fact that he met the girls who were cursed by the witch in Salem village. He has only daughters and no sons, and the sons-in-law are eyeing the property accumulated by their old father-in-law by various means.

People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden, but at that time Salem had to face being bullied even if he was a bad horse. Giles didn't make a difference with her like Osborne's Irish husband Boundary, so he also stood in the dock.

In April, 25 people were accused of witchcraft, five times the number in March, and the objects were no longer limited to women. In addition to Giles Corey, Tituba's Indian husband John also became a suspect Objects, they are all suspected because of their spouses. During the trial, Giles' 25-year-old son-in-law claimed that his father-in-law had cursed his family's orchard to catch fire this year, and if not next year, the fruit trees would not bear fruit.

Fifteen years ago, the roof of Proctor's house suddenly burst into flames, and Corey was also considered the culprit, but John Proctor did not accuse him of arson, but said that he used "devil's hands" to set it on fire.

John Proctor's wife was previously accused of being a witch by girls in public. If John Proctor did not clear himself as the accuser, Elizabeth was convicted of the crime, and he himself may stand as Giles Corey. in the dock.

Giles yells at John Proctor for slander, and then a lot of old grudges come up, and Cory does his best to dismiss the accusations, denying that he made a pact with the devil and has never been tempted in his life.

Fearing that the grumpy old man would use force, Giles' hands were bound, and he could only growl like a bound cougar.

He couldn't explain how Martha Corey got the green ointment, other than to say it was given to him by his "damn, diabolical hooligan" neighbors who accused him of putting it in their cowshed Panicked, when Hassan asked him "what scares you", he could only answer "I've never been scared in my life".

Someone like John Indian who had seen allegations of witchcraft up close had learned that it was much safer to be the victim rather than the accused before anyone else mentioned his own. A wizard can be a man or a woman, a beggar, a full church member or an outsider, so when Paris preached on April 10, John Indian was "two The Ghost" attacked.

One of the two ghosts is Sarah Croyce, Rebecca Nurse's sister.

Her life was more difficult than that of her sister. Her first husband, Dan, was attacked by Indians in the early years. She raised 5 children alone as a widow, and later married Croyce.

Sarah was unruly at the time, arguing with John Indian about "why did you hurt me?" even a dog that warms its master's feet under a chapel table knows it's dangerous.

When Giles Corey was fighting with the male teacher before, he poured a basin of dirty water on the other party. This method was indiscriminate but effective. John Indian, who was supposed to stand in the dock like Corey, should not be the plaintiff?

This is no longer a trial, but a large-scale stage performance, and all kinds of people want to go up and act.

The beautiful and quiet pastoral era is a thing of the past, and the magistrate will drink in the tavern like those troubled drunkards. This is a management method of waiting for work.

After the witch trials began, these sheriffs had a new job, which was to catch witches and wizards. As the accusations continued to spread to the edge of the town, they had less time to stay in the tavern.

The pastor's niece, Abigail Wilms, also often appeared at the door of the tavern, and she and her ladies also used the tavern as a gathering place.

Judge Hassan never isolated the girls or interrogated them alone, nor tried to prove scientifically, but sent sheriffs to arrest, interrogate, and imprison them. If there had been a rational and shrewd judge in Salem at that time, he would not have listened to the testimony of the "victim" one-sidedly like Hassan, beautified the suffering of the teenagers, or the "demonology" and the way to identify the devil that the priests said, it would not have been There will be so many children who will lose their parents.

The women accused by the girls are almost always the mothers of their children. I don't know if the girls have thought about how those younger children who lost their mothers will live in the future.

Ann Putnam Jr. was the eldest daughter, and after she had younger siblings, her mother stopped focusing on her.

Moreover, she kept guarding the mausoleum for her younger siblings who died young one after another. The mother who was physically weak and pregnant again had no energy to pay attention to her mood.

Maybe when they grow up a little bit and become mothers themselves, they will understand and apologize to the victims she accused, but why should the victims forgive her for her peace of conscience?

Don't take the unforgivable as a child's play, because it is unforgivable.

But before that, they were just a group of ignorant children, just happy to receive attention.

It's a carnival of witches and devils, and that's just the beginning.