Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1722 The secret words of the goddess (sixty-seven)

  On July 5, 1687, Isaac Newton published the theory of gravitation in The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. However, this theory was not immediately accepted by people, and he was still promoting it in 1692.

Unlike most people’s belief, science is used to break "superstitions." In 1692, Newton wrote to the British priest Bentley in his reply, "When I wrote about the cosmic system, I paid special attention to it. Enough to make thoughtful people believe in the principles of God, when I find my writing useful for this purpose, nothing makes me more happy than this."

  That is to say, universal gravitation is the mathematical principle that Newton thought could make people believe in the existence of God. If it were not so, his theory would have been banned by the church just like Copernicus’s heliocentric theory.

  The Salem trial took place during the reigns of William III and Mary II, and the international secrecy law was promulgated at about the same time. At that time, the delegation of wizards tried to get the king to pass a law prohibiting witchcraft persecution, but for some reason the kings did not agree.

  If they don’t believe in witchcraft, then as the title page of Witch’s Hammer said, not believing in witchcraft is the greatest heresy.

Witchcraft and religion are in a symbiotic relationship. Without mystery, there is no belief. However, because of the cruel and madness of witchcraft persecution, some rational people have begun to doubt the authenticity of witchcraft, whether there are real wizards or some people use this reason. Disaster for the world.

  Witches became a topic of discussion among elites, scholars and learned priests.

   While the European continent is busy discussing these, the Americas are still witch hunting. When hunters always need hounds, there are hounds, little dogs, and big dogs next to the Orion in the sky. They follow the instructions of the hunter to hunt down rabbits, bears and other animals around.

  The star of Canis is called the Heart of Charlie. It is said that it was very bright when Charles II returned to London from France. Charles II’s father, headless Charles, was once cut off by Cromwell. Charles I may be the only king in British history whose head was cut off. His exaggerated wig and extravagance angered the Puritans. The theater It is a place that can bring entertainment and at the same time attract all kinds of resentment and jealousy, especially when people see the actors dressed up. The English longbowmen used to be the main fighting force in the UK, but a qualified archer is not born and requires a lot of training. In England’s "Charity Law", it is mentioned that bows and arrows should be provided to teenagers between 7 and 17 years old. Because many parents and male owners have a legal obligation to provide weapons, but they are unable to satisfy them because of poverty.

  Although it is inevitable that they may face death to become longbowmen, they also have the opportunity to be promoted and become generals and nobles because of their military exploits. The characters that soldiers hate most, except for the extravagant royal family, are those actors who do nothing but earn both fame and fortune.

  When they died for the country, no one remembered their names. On the contrary, the names of the actors were well-known. The screenwriters will use the soldiers' deeds to write the script, and the actors only need to put on a pose and show on stage to get applause and applause.

  Cromwell, the protector of the country, closed many theaters after he came to power. The education he received since childhood was from the Puritans, and he himself supported the Puritans.

  But he has not been in power for a long time. Many people can't stand the way of life of the Puritans. After the fall of Cromwell, he welcomed Charles II, who had been in exile in France, back.

Charles II is also known as the King of Joy. He changed the Puritan way of life during Cromwell’s reign, reopened the theater, and vigorously developed comedy. As for the New World, because most of the local people were Puritans, By 1692, there was still no theater at all. At that time, Boston was full of rumors of witches and witchcraft. The first residents there were emigrated from England, and many of them came from the most obsessed counties. If anyone in the town sees a convulsing child, kind people. Instead of reminding the child's parents that it was a seizure, they will tell them that the witch lives nearby.

The land of New England is very suitable for the growth of witchcraft. In this remote wilderness, there are not only New England people, but also French and Indians. Regarding Indian civilization, most people's understanding is limited to the scalp and the colorful feathers on their bodies. Decoration, only a small number of people engaged in fur business or hunting for a living will come into contact with Indians.

  These people are also solitary and rarely go to church to worship, but no one dares to mess with them.

  Strength is very necessary in that place. Unfortunately, pulling the longbow requires arm strength. It is very difficult for women to do so. Perhaps it will not be until the arrival of the firearm age that women have the strength to truly defend themselves.

  Unless, she is a real witch.

  Sarah Goode had a chance to escape, but she was wandering around, leaving Salem just to live in another place. However, the motherhood of the woman made her fall back, and then she was caught by the "hunters" who waited.

  In ancient Rome, if a child was not strong enough, the mother would put him on the abandoned ground. Infanticide was not a crime.

   But later women’s infanticide became a felony and would be sentenced by a judge to exile to the New World. How can these women survive there?

There are some "disreputable" women in every town, such as witches who tell people a fortune-telling, and women who do not go out to work but always have money to spend. They dress better than those who are worthy of doing laundry with their hands. Women are even more beautiful.

  Boston is an international city. In this respect, it is much more open than Salem. The men in Salem do not need to look for the frivolous women like the men in Boston.

  They have taken in many war orphans as their maids, not to mention slaves, but there is still a woman in the town who is stained, and her name is Martha Corey, who lives on the edge of the southwest of Salem.

  She does not go to church like Good and Osman, but she is quiet every time she goes to church and try not to talk to people, because every time she attends, she will bring her own children.

  It’s nothing strange in itself. Many people take their children to church, but this teenager is a bit special because he is a mixed race.

When Columbus discovered the New World, he believed that the earth was round. He thought that he could change the direction without going around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to reach India, which is full of spices and gold. These early explorers regarded the Native Americans as Indians. Then call them Indians.

  The British established the East India Company in the early 17th century. At that time, the British had a better understanding of the real "India", including the Indian caste system.

  At the beginning of the establishment of the New World, this caste system has been embedded in the collective subconsciousness of the people of the New World.

No matter how the "desperate to death" slave owners advocated freedom and equality, it was also after the popularization of Newton's gravitation in the 18th century that they were naturally deified and replaced God as the master of the world. The "innate human rights" in " "Innate" refers to the power possessed by natural persons and beings. So what is the definition of human beings?

  Slaves were materialized by him. In the law of 1882, women’s status and value were nothing more than a piece of furniture. Thanks to this law, the court would grant “justice to the bank and mercy to the wife”.

   People who are also in oppression and **** will have empathy, and sometimes British women will give birth to children who look different from their own people.

  In view of this, the Virginia law of 1662 announced that whether a child born in this country is a slave or a free person depends only on the child’s mother.

  The child born to a slave mother is still a slave, even if his father is a slave owner.

  The child born to the slave owner’s mother is a free man, even if his father is a slave.

This is different from the caste system. The caste system is patrilineal. Even if the child’s mother is from a lower caste, the child born to her inherits the father’s higher caste. This is also a way for the lower caste to escape from the original caste. Generally speaking, she will grow up. Very beautiful, so the high castes in India generally look more beautiful than the low castes.

  The child born from the union of a woman from Europe and a man from Africa is ugly in the eyes of others, and Mary Corey, who gave birth to this child, is also dishonorable.

  After the three witches were taken away, a Boston woman and a white-haired man were not caught. Who else is more suspicious than Martha Corey?

  If she hadn't been tempted by the devil, how could she give birth to that hybrid?

Since the jailers in Boston put the three Salem suspects in jail, Ann Putnam has been pinched by a new ghost, namely Good’s five-year-old daughter Dorothy, but that child has disappeared. People I searched all the caves and shelters with hounds, but no one could find her, as if she had already left.

Because the witch was not completely arrested, Paris decided to separate the enchanted girl in her own family. The blond Abigail Wilmes had a deeper impact. In contrast, Betty’s symptoms were much milder, so the priest decided to separate herself. His daughter was sent to the home of Stephen Sewell, the secretary of the court, so that the priests could pray around the clock and continue to exorcise Abigail.

The pastors were obviously not free, and the problems of Ann Putnam still had to be solved by the townspeople. So Edward Putnam, the church deacon and John Putnam's brother, and the court recorder and Maro Ezekiel Cheever We visited Martha Corey on the morning of March 12th.

  Masha smiled, and politely let them in. Before they could sit down, Martha solemnly said, "I know why you are here. You come here to say that I am a witch."

  The two guests were speechless.

   "I am not." Martha said, "but I can't stop others from talking about me."

  Edward Putnam said at this time, "But Ann confessed your name."

   "Then did she mention what clothes I was wearing?" Martha asked.

   "Excuse me, what did you say?" Edward asked in surprise.

   "Your niece, did she mention what clothes I was wearing?" Martha said.

  Edward and Ezekiel glanced at each other, and then said, "A 12-year-old girl may not be able to see clearly, let alone you blinded her."

"She can also say that I said I went to her at night, so I can't see me clearly. In short, she just won't tell you what clothes I wear." Martha said with a smile, "I have no reason to be worried about the accusation of An, I She is a devout woman who has already publicized her faith in Christ and always listens to God with joy. I am a'gospel woman'."

   "I heard that you once prevented your husband from going to the trial." Ezekiel said.

   "I don't think there is anything good about it." Martha said coldly, "What benefits will such a trial bring? I heard that girls recognize ghosts by dressing. This is a dangerous sign."

   "I think you don't take the accusation seriously." Edward threatened, just like Hassan treated the "witches" in the same tone in court.

"As the pastor said, angry demons have already come between us. I am not surprised that Tituba, Goode and Osborne are treated as witches. They are lazy and have no brains. I told them It's not the same!" Martha touched the cross on her chest and said, "My faith is indestructible. God will testify for me. Let the judge and the pastor open their eyes."

The two visitors returned angrily. They did not grasp any of Martha's handles. Later they passed by Thomas Putnam's house and Ann recovered calm. Until that night, Ann's convulsions recurred and lasted for the second time. day.

  This time she regained consciousness and said that the ghost who caused her was a serious woman with a pale face. She had sat in the old position of Ann's grandmother on the church bench.

  There used to be many bisons running on the North American continent, but they were hunted and killed by humans and they were almost extinct.

  Men sometimes hunt them not to eat their meat or to ask for their skins, but for pleasure.

For modern wizards, it is difficult to understand why there are purifiers who have magical talents but do harm to the same kind. Wizards historians believe that at least two of the so-called judges in Salem at the time were known to purify. It was also the influence of the Salem incident that the Magic Congress of the United States was established in 1693 and began to judge those who betrayed the same kind of Scavengers.

  However, there are still some notorious scavengers who evaded the pursuit, and they disappeared among the maji after the international hunting order was issued.

If the children born with magic talents will be abandoned, leaving only the offspring without magic talents, they will pass on to their children and grandchildren a firm belief: magicians are real, and wizards should be eliminated once they are discovered. .

  However, Muggles have the "Charity Benefit Law." These abandoned children will be taken in and raised. When they grow up, will they want to know why they were abandoned?

  What do they think when they know what their parents did?

  If he is a kind of "criminal evidence", why should he be born?

If Venus, Athena, and Hera are vying for Prince Troy to choose whom to give the golden apple, then Pastor Paris is holding a rotten apple. Whoever catches it will represent dishonor. It is estimated that there will be no one. The "goddess" wanted it.

  Maybe Samuel Paris did not listen to the Salem church group and the pastors, and agreed to leave Boston and go to that "poor village" to be a pastor. He will have other opportunities in the city.

  So don’t be too obsessed with some people’s words, go to places you don’t know, especially the young masters of wealthy people, because you never know what kind of **** is waiting for you.

  Otherwise, Samuel Paris is a lesson from the past. You will be dragged into the quagmire and never get out again, even if Paris was faced with the situation at that time, it seemed that there was no choice.

  (End of this chapter)