Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1720 The secret words of the goddess (sixty-five)

  Samuel Paris is not a bad person, he is just a young pastor who was forced to go to Salem because of his life.

He hopes to bring a different spiritual civilization to the village. He tries to entrain his own arguments when preaching, and he will talk endlessly about something. This often makes him feel powerless, because the believers under the forum gave him nothing. No reaction.

  In fact, what the villagers want to hear from the pastor is comfort, which was often provided to them by the old pastors, but rarely received in Paris.

  Paris is a person who is not easy to give up. This is also his stubborn side. However, her persistence has not brought any improvement, his salary is owed, and a campaign to fire him is brewing.

Just like how he felt when he first saw Salem, he would be buried alive in this place, and what’s worse is that he would freeze to death before suffocating and die. There is still a shortage of firewood. He and his family I had to tremble in the heavy snow and squally wind.

The winter from 1691 to 1692 was extremely cold. The bread in the sacrament plate and the ink in the pen were frozen, and the cold wind blew in from the chimney. When Paris preached, sometimes it would ring one after another. Coughing and loud sneezing, some people even shuffled their feet because of frostbite on their feet.

  In order to make each other's lives more comfortable, he shortened the time of the sermon. Apart from arguing with the people in the village, Paris has other jobs. He was still studying theology one second, and he was building hair for his mare the next second. If he was truly loved and respected by the villagers, these jobs should have been someone else. Do it for you.

  He had to do everything himself, including repairing the fence in the garden, but in order to host a prayer meeting, he had to let go of this job.

  His wife Elizabeth is five years older than Paris. Before marriage, she was a member of the First Church in Boston. Now she sits on the bench in Salem with the five ladies of the Putnam family.

  She is a pious, kind, and obedient woman with a gentle temperament and decent behavior. Since the establishment of the school law in 1647, every New Englander needs basic literacy skills. The outstanding education of Massachusetts is also attributed to this.

A wise father will not let her children spoil food, and a wise mother will not censure and discipline her children. Paris will pray and read the Bible with her family every morning and evening. His servants also need to do the same, Elizabeth Girls will be taught to read and write.

At the same time, she wanted to make this almost run-down house more comfortable. In any case, she would read and discuss the "Bible" with the children at home. Later, she joined a member, 12-year-old Ann Putnam. Daughter of Thomas Putnam, a loyal supporter of Paris.

Paris’s stubbornness and preaching still improved a bit, although slow but still progressing, until the second half of January 1692, the Indians attacked York County and razed it to the ground. The priest was cut off his scalp and died. On the doorstep of his house, the news was originally blocked by the heavy snow, and gradually spread as the thaw period came.

  Indians always like to mumble, the whispering sounds like the music of the devil, so in New England the word mutter represents evil and rebellion. When there are more people muttering, the riots are not far away.

The Salem people have also heard of this incident, but it has little impact on them. The existence of this village is also related to its ability to avoid Indian attacks. The locals call it a city of hills. It comes from the Bible. They Is blessed by God.

  However, even in such a quiet small village, there were grunts, and people were whispering about strange things that happened in the pastor’s house.

Paris hired the only licensed doctor in town, William Griggs, who had just come to Salem, to see his daughter and niece, but the doctor was helpless, and to make matters worse, Thomas Putnam’s Daughter Ann and Griggs' maid also fell ill one after another, with the same symptoms as Paris's niece Abigail and Betty.

The young Dr. William asked the old Dr. Griggs. This doctor was more experienced and had been to many places. The old Dr. Griggs believed that it was William who brought the infectious disease home. He gave it to Paris’s family. The girl judged it was a digestive disorder, but he refused to treat the Parisian **** the second visit.

  The doctor told everyone in the village to fast, but if people’s mouths don’t chew, they will be idle. The "devil's hand" is the "diagnosis" generally accepted by the townspeople.

  This news spread as wildly as the Indians attacked York County. New Englanders may not believe in unicorns and mermaids, but in the existence of witches.

  The strange thing is that they are very welcome to witchcraft, as long as the victim is not in their own home, but before Paris, the devil has never appeared in a priest's house.

  This caught the attention of another priest, who rushed to Salem non-stop to investigate the matter.

Cotton Mather is ten years younger than Paris, but unlike the hapless Paris, he is only 29 years old and has already become famous. He is gradually becoming the most prestigious figure in New England. He is not only tall and handsome, but also talented and unremitting. Working hard, he joined Harvard at the age of 11, and started his first sermon at the age of 16, and led two exorcism incidents in Massachusetts.

  Such a "superstar" cannot be kept in a place like Salem, and his purpose in coming to Salem is to see that enchanted house.

  Paris was full of hostility towards him, and when he preached publicly in the church, he warned the residents of the parish "God sent spoilers in anger."

Put yourself in Paris's position and think about it. Everyone thinks that fate is unjust. Even if his daughter and niece barked at home for a month, it was his home, not the "devil's lair" as Mather called it. .

  Mather regards exorcism as a kind of dangerous and dangerous game thanks to the grace of God. He conceited that he could handle any situation.

  However, at this time, it started to rain heavily. The rain seemed to be leaking, or someone was splashing water, and it continued to fall.

  In such terrible weather, Paris and his wife Elizabeth left home and gave their daughter and niece to neighbor Mary Sibury to take care of them.

In Fuchs, where the local family is better, she and her husband who is a tinker can be regarded as the mainstay of the church. Samuel Sibury will step in every time there is a property that needs to be disposed of or a contract needs to be secured. Mary is in Paris. The family is also very contented.

  The only thing that makes Mary unhappy is the speed at which Paris can solve the puzzle, so she arranges a secret experiment.

At this time, because of continuous heavy rain and melting winter snow, the river rose, flooded the river bank, flooded homes, washed away the river, washed away mills and bridges, and Essex County became a boil. Muddy swamp.

  People who were responding to the disaster heard about what happened in Salem, Thomas Putnam greeted other priests in Salem and returned to town.

Originally, Paris brought slaves, but one of the young girls died of illness shortly after arriving in Salem. Paris bought an Indian slave. The slave stayed at home and took care of the children with Mary Sibury. .

  Mary wanted to find out what caused the torture of the children, so she asked the Indian slaves to collect the girls’ urine, bake it into a cake, and threw it to a dog.

  Paris became furious when he knew that anti-magicism was not allowed in the pastor's home. The pastors from Boston also thought of him, or because of the church's consideration, concealed this experiment and took pains to suppress people's identification of witches.

  The devil is different from the curse of a witch. The devil is a spirit body and possesses a human body. The priest said that he left and left, and the witch must find a living person to bear the guilt.

Mary got into a catastrophe. Even if she was six months pregnant, she would still be hanged. The matter was over and it would be useless to cry. Fortunately for her, there was a woman in town who was more suspicious than her. . On Monday morning, several villagers dressed in cloaks of mud splashed and found two Salem judges and formally filed a witchcraft charge. A few hours later, the village sheriff took the arrest warrant and the black stick. Prying open a door, the house is located a mile southwest of the vicarage, where Sarah Good lived.

On the morning of March 1, the sheriff took Sara to the Ingersoll’s tavern, where her interrogation will take place. If there is another center in the town, it is the Ingersoll Tavern. The chapel is just a few steps away, and the parishioners will rest here between Sunday sermons.

That morning the tavern was more crowded than usual. Martha Corey decided not to go to the trial and advised her husband not to go, but she failed. Giles Corey did not miss the trial for a minute. After the town’s judge arrived , The Ingersoll Tavern could not accommodate more wicked people, so the interrogation was transferred to the chapel.

  According to the teachings of the Puritans, the theater was a shameful place of vanity. At that time, there was not even one theater in North America. The chapel was only a dim room in its heyday, and it has not been repaired for many years. Now it is dark and bleak, almost unusable, but it does not affect the "program atmosphere" at all. The farmers knew their place on the dark wooden benches more clearly, but it was not Paris who stood at the pulpit table, but the justices of the peace Jonathan Cowan and John Hassan, who presided over the trial.

  Sarah quickly admitted that she had tortured two Paris girls, Thomas Putnam’s daughter and Griggs’ maid in the past two months.

  The four girls began to twist violently as soon as they saw her. What could Sarah do, but Sarah also knew that Hassan also arrested two other women.

  I have always been lonely.

  Perhaps Sarah thought that at the time, so when Hassan asked who cast the spell on these children for the fourth and fifth time, Sarah Goode said Sarah Osborne’s name.

  The recovered girls clarified that it was Goode and Osborne who tortured them together, and that the two of them would mumble when they walked near their house, as if they were chanting a spell or communicating with the devil.

Hassan cross-examined the second suspect in court, middle-aged Sarah Osborne. Osborne has been pursuing an inheritance, which was left to her by her husband. At the same time, she started working with an Irish farm. The workers interacted and got married shortly afterwards, and rumors about her circulated for many years.

  Compared to Goode, who has experienced vicissitudes and looks more than 70 years old, but is actually only 38 years old, Osborne is much more decent, even though she is paralyzed in bed.

   "I haven't seen Goode." Osborn said to Hassan, "I don't know her either, I don't want to involve her."

   "But she has already involved you." Hassan further stimulated.

In game theory, everyone knows that if everyone invites the prettiest girl, the girl’s other companions will turn around and leave with pride, leaving behind the unlucky ones who were rejected by the prettiest "goddess". They spend the "bachelor night" alone, so the best way for everyone is to invite everyone to the friend of the most beautiful girl. As the saying goes, a flock of birds is worse than a bird in the forest.

However, in reality, everyone encounters more prisoners’ dilemmas. She will be released immediately because of her meritorious service. She will even stand in the witness box like Abigail Hops. The worst is that both of them have been in prison for eight years. .

  But if she is silent, she may be held alone for ten years.

  Do you trust someone who is almost strange to you?

  If you don’t believe it, how can you expect her to remain silent like you?

  Osborne said to Hassan, "I don’t know her, I don’t know why she framed me."

  Seeing that Osborn was not fooled, Hassan asked the girls to stand up and asked them to identify them. Every girl actively identified Osborn.

  After being arrested, Osborne was put in prison.

  That night, the guards of Salem Prison heard Osborn's grunt.

  At first, the guards couldn’t hear it clearly, but later he heard it a little closer. Osborne was saying, “I’m not so much a witch, but I’m cursed.”

  The guard told Hassan about the incident, which aroused Hassan’s suspicion. What did Osborn’s words mean?

  One, Sarah Goode cursed her.

  Two, besides the two of them, there are other witches who have not been caught.

  So Hassan decided to continue the "court" tomorrow, and he wanted to capture all the witches in Salem and bring the town back to "quiet".

  (End of this chapter)