Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1721 The secret words of the goddess (sixty-six)

  In the early morning of March 2, 1692, the chapel was crowded with people. Usually they were not so diligent when they came to listen to Paris's sermon.

  The order of the chapel was obviously messed up. The villagers sat on the black wooden bench whispering and whispering, so that the sheriff Herrick had to shout "Keep quiet."

  Sarah Osborn and Sara Goode are both marginal people in this town, but compared to the obvious downfall of Goode, Osborne is unable to go to church because of illness.

Osborn’s first husband designated Thomas and John Putnam as testamentary heirs, but the two people embezzled the property in the will, and Osborn had to start a long relationship with the famous family in Salem. Litigation for ten years.

  After the trial, Hassan asked her, “The guard said that he heard you talking by yourself last night. What are you talking about?”

  Osborne looked at Hassan calmly: "I heard a suspicious voice."

   "Is the devil talking to you?" Hassan asked.

   "I don't know the devil you are talking about." Osborne replied vaguely, "I heard a voice telling me not to participate in church gatherings."

   "Why do you succumb to the devil, and never go to worship since then?" Hassan kept asking.

   "She hasn't attended church for 14 months." Osborne's Irish husband said in the crowd.

  There was another whisper among the crowd.

   "Keep quiet!" Hassan patted the table with his hand, and the villagers immediately became quiet.

"I had a dream." Osborne whispered. "An Indian, maybe he was. He pulled my hair and dragged me to the front door. I'm like every New England woman. I would rather die than Willing to be caught alive by him."

   "What happened later?" Hassan asked.

   "I woke up, and I was sitting here." Osborne said, "Waiting for your trial, Judge."

  "Do you think the Indians cursed you?" Hassan asked.

   "Otherwise, who else is there?" Osborn asked rhetorically.

"I know who it is!" said 12-year-old Ann Putnam, one of the four murdered girls. "The priest had an Indian slave named Tituba, who did it, and her husband, who was also involved. Yes, I saw her in and out of many houses that week when it rained heavily, and she planned to kill me.

  Tituba’s husband, John, was the one who baked witch cakes according to Mary Sibury’s instructions, but he was a man, not a witch, so he was not arraigned. Instead, Tituba was arrested.

  The pastors in Massachusetts agreed that the only way to deal with the devil was prayer. Earlier, people believed that fasting was a defense against witchcraft.

Witches are generally marginal people. They behave strangely and behave abnormally. Like Goode and Osborne, Tituba is not like that. She loves Betty very much. She is proficient in the Bible and prays with the priest’s girls. Eating, sleeping together at night, and singing hymns in front of the fireplace in Paris's house, she didn't look like a suspect anyway.

  But Tituba was still taken to the trial house. As soon as Hasan saw her, he felt that she was guilty, and then asked, "Why did you hurt the child?"

  Tituba answered in crappy English, "I don’t hurt them, at all."

  "Who is hurting those girls?" Hassan asked again.

"As far as I know, it must be the devil!" Tituba said. "Just as I was cleaning the poncho for the priest, a tall man with white hair in a dark woolen coat came and told me to hurt the children. There were four accomplices, Goode and Osborne, and two other Bostonians. He threatened me that if I didn't torture the girl, he would kill me."

  "Then has this man appeared in any other disguise?" Hasan asked.

"There is also a yellow bird, and two red cats, a **** cat, a black dog, and a pig. He said that if I serve him, I can get the yellow bird, Sarah Good She also had one in her hand, and a translucent cat followed her. When she cast a spell on the girls, she blocked my ears so that I could not hear her scriptures, the man in the woolen coat She came four times in total. He threatened me. If I mentioned him, he would screw my head. Good and Osman disguised as ghosts and asked me to work for them. They asked me to go to the doctor and screwed his. Maid, sent me to Putnam's house and let me kill Ann Putnam..."

Indians are good at telling stories. Tituba told every detail of the story very carefully and clearly. In addition, she also mentioned the wolf that once followed Elizabeth Hubbert, which was changed by Sarah Goode. .

  She didn't know the name of the white-haired man, but knew that the Boston woman who came with him was lined with white. She followed Hassan's inducing question to answer.

  In short, she is very cooperative and emphasizes that she loves Betty and Abigail very much. She is also a little scared to obey her master. The priest cares more for children than deterrent, and deterrences more for servants.

  The time to interrogate her was more than five times as long as Goode, and finally Tituba finished her testimony, and the girls happened to start twitching again.

   "Who is torturing these kids now?" Hassan asked.

   "It's Sarah Good." Tituba must say.

  The girls yelled for agreement, but at this time Tituba couldn't say a word. After a while, she said, "I'm blind and can't see anything."

  In this way, the trial is over, and it is logical to pray one last time. This time Tituba protested.

In the evening, both Tituba and Osborne were imprisoned in Salem prison. After the judge left, the townspeople began to hold a meeting. It was supposed to be held at 1 o'clock, but it actually started very late. Salem villagers They also quarreled with the townspeople about their responsibilities.

  The town seems to have restored its "quiet" once again.

  After a week of rain, the sky cleared again, and a full moon appeared in the sky.

To celebrate that the witches were caught, the village laborers and tinkers William Allen and John Hughes drank a little wine at Sibury’s house and discussed the matter, and they heard an anomaly on their way back.的声动.

As they approached following the sound, they found a strange and rare monster dancing. It noticed that they were approaching and dissolved in the silver moonlight. At the same time, Elizabeth Hubbard, who was a guest at Griggs’s house She began to vomit, and then she said to Samuel Sibury, "Sarah Goode is standing on the table next to you!"

  This really frightened Samuel, because Sarah Good was now locked up on her farm by Sheriff Joseph Herrick, waiting to be escorted to the prison in Ebbswich the next day.

  Samuel picked up the cane and hit the table next to him as Elizabeth said. His cane hit a ghostly female beggar.

  Later, Samuel went to the sheriff’s farm, and the two went to the farmhouse where Good was imprisoned, but she ran away.

The two went out to hunt together. Sarah also disappeared into the darkness for a while. At this time, Samuel suggested that she might be looking for the child she and the devil had. So the two went back to town and caught Sara in the middle. La Goode, she was holding her three-month-old child in her arms.

The maternal love of the woman’s nature made Sarah no chance to escape. She was caught back to the farm. The next morning, when Herrick’s wife was taking care of her, she found that Sarah’s arms were covered from elbows to wrists. It was scratched, and there were no traces the night before. The villagers didn't suspect that Sarah had hurt herself when she broke the shackles in order to escape. Instead, they thought it was Samuel's crutches.

Sarah was sent to the Ebbswich prison that day, but the town had a ghost, or the laborer and repairer William Allen and John Hughes who saw the monster last night, they saw one by one. One of Sarah Good’s souls saw a gray fat cat crouching by the bed, with dazzling light shining in its eyes.

Both of them were terrified. When Ann Putnam woke up from her sleep the next morning, she found Goode’s five-year-old daughter Dorothy in her room and pinched her neck with her hand. , Order her to sign a contract with the devil.

  She was frightened, screamed and ran away from her room, and then she woke up again, this time she was alone in the room.

  At the same time, Hassan was still perfecting his “confession” with Tituba so that he could read it in a Boston court in the future. Goode laughed at him later, and he believed what a clever slave said.

  One week after being arrested, Good, Osborne, Tituba, and Good’s three-month-old children were all sent to the carriage to Boston. The trip that day took a day to complete.

  The Massachusetts prison lacked chains, but it was also an evidence of the superpowers of the witches, so it was removed from the wall and sent to the car.

  Things come to an end? Of course not. This is the beginning. Hassan has to find a white-haired man, a Boston woman, and Goode’s daughter Dorothy, who are usually witches.

  After this incident, Paris’s house was almost destroyed, and his reputation was also discredited. The devil’s invasion occurred in the priest’s house. It must be that he was not religious enough.

   Obviously, not everyone who graduated from Harvard has a bright future.

  Before the accident, the villagers were discussing firing him, thinking that they were begging him to be a pastor in this place.

  Perhaps I knew this a long time ago. When signing the contract, we should not mention firewood, but dismissal is not allowed. He is 39 years old and has experienced these things. Who would want him?

   Anger controlled the priest, and the beginning of all this may be just that the daughters wished their father could stay at home more, so they acted together in a drama.

  Of course, everything cannot be verified. This is just a guess, and this storm is far from over.

"it's not finished yet."

  The pastor drank the wine in the bottle, put the empty bottle on the table in anger, and then left the table.

  (End of this chapter)