Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1723 The secret words of the goddess (sixty-eight)

  In the second half of the 18th century, such repertoires were often staged in the Opera House of Paris. The shepherd wins over the citizens or nobles in love, and the prince falls in love with the shepherdess. In order to marry the shepherdess, he designed to dismantle a couple of rural lovers and let one of his ladies seduce the honest and friendly young rural men. However, the dull farmer did He didn't know how to flirt at all, and he didn't respond no matter how the lady scratched her head.

  This kind of idyllic love in the city finds it fresh and fun, how do the country folks react?

  In the analysis of Freud’s dreams, dreams are often the side that cannot be obtained in reality, and the most in need of compensation. In reality, there are very few examples of shepherds winning the noble lords in love. Acting in a comedy is equivalent to moving their dreams to the stage. So, are the farmers who enter the city or the low-level citizens who like to watch this kind of drama most?

No, no, no, the little nobleman in Paris likes this pastoral love the most. If there is such a shepherdess in a play in reality, he will marry her back to Paris and show his friends what It is true simplicity, innocence, kindness, chastity, etc., these virtues have been exhausted in the city. When "Pastoral Love" was staged in Paris, the little nobles were overwhelmed by the shepherdess’ sunny spring-like natural beauty. The idea that true happiness and true marriage can only be found in the countryside spread. When they saw the peasant couple with a simple happy smile on their faces, their faces turned green with jealousy.

  I don’t know if it’s because of the corset, or drunk too much coffee, the women in the city faint at every turn, and it’s difficult to get pregnant, and they can’t breastfeed. Rural women, on the contrary, are strong enough to be able to nurse their children even if they are not as productive as the family hopes.

  They think that the countryside is a huge storehouse of purity, a pure land for the insensitive urbanites to escape from reality.

  So what does the country folk’s view of love look like?

  Most people marry people in the parish, especially women. Almost all marriages are formed within 10 miles, which is the distance that can be returned on the day of walking. The mediator will usually inquire about the other party’s wealth, such as how many sheep and cows there are in the family, and they can discuss marriage when they think it’s almost the case. The miller’s son abandoned the merchant’s daughter because she “fees that she doesn’t have enough money.” The 17-year-old girl who pursues her favorite guy will directly say how much dowry she has. Sometimes the matchmaker will say that the girl will have five inheritances. Make a temptation.

In the   play, the status of the shepherd is higher than that of the farmer. The reality is that the farmer is the first-class character, and the status of the farmer is second only to the noble. The daughter of a wealthy farmer is struggling to marry, and the rural notary who "holds the pen" does not feel that he is a scholar. Except for very rare occurrences, rural people are actually more realistic than urban people. Sarah Osborne’s Irish husband married her ex-husband’s inheritance.

  However, this lawsuit has been fought for 10 years, and Osborne was paralyzed in bed because of illness, and it has been 14 months according to his testimony in court. He can't get the inheritance, and he has to take care of a paralyzed woman. Oh, no, she's a witch. What else would he do if he didn't immediately draw a line with Sarah Osborne?

Martha Corey is the third wife of Giles Corey. At the end of the 17th century, even a man who had been married three times was a dishonorable thing, not to mention that he was not a model citizen. The old man was seventy years old. Now, they still fight with the young people in the village in the tavern at odds with each other.

  He and Martha married seven years ago. When he heard that Ann Putnam accused his wife of being a witch, he took a stick and planned to teach a twelve-year-old girl a little lesson.

  Martha persuaded him, because he was going to provoke the Putnam family, a prominent family in the town.

  This is actually very easy to distinguish. Of the 4 victims, two were the priest’s daughter and relatives, and one was a maid. Although the maid was older, she was living in the house of Dr. Griggs.

The priest’s daughter, Betty, is only 8 years old. Abigail Wilps is a beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes, but she has no education. She has publicly interrupted the priest’s sermon. On the contrary, it is the 12-year-old Ann Putnam. She is The leader of this group of little girls.

  Her name is taken after her mother. Old Ann Putnam is 30 years old this year and has 7 children in total. Xiao Ann Putnam is the eldest daughter, and she is also the only child who lives with her parents.

Old Ann Putnam’s sister married Bailey, the first pastor in the village. Their father is very rich. She is also in a 10-year estate lawsuit like Osborne, but left her inheritance. It is the father of old Ann Putnam, which includes several islands, several pastures and a ferry boat, which is much more legacy than Osborne’s ex-husband.

Since the miscarriage last year, old Ann Putnam seems to be in poor health, and Xiao Ann Putnam lacks discipline because of this. Martha thinks that the bloodthirsty girl will stop if she understands that she provokes a person who is not easy to mess with. Up.

The Indian slave woman accused the Boston witch. She thought there must be people who made sense in a big city like Boston. Perhaps it was because the pastor’s family missed life in Boston so much that they often talked at home, so she remembered it, but Pat Although Nanjia is a noble family in Salem, it is not in Boston, let alone places like Wales and London.

  The little Ann Putnam, who doesn’t know the sky and the earth, thinks that she can do whatever she wants in Salem, and can do whatever she wants in the world?

  If there are too many accusations of witchcraft, this is to be seen in the newspaper, and it may not be Hassan who will be responsible for the investigation and interrogation at that time.

Giles was persuaded by Martha. Martha was also 60 years old and could not care about with a little girl who could be her granddaughter. However, two days later, Thomas Putnam summoned Martha to his house, and Giles was also No longer, Martha went on horseback alone.

  But what Martha did not expect was that when she entered the house at once, Xiao Ann Putnam started to breathe, her tongue kept throwing out, her hands and feet were still twisted and deformed, and she looked terrifying.

  Everyone was nervous, and surrounded Xiao Ann Putnam to "first aid", and Martha watched coldly.

Finally, Ann Putnam regained her ability to speak. She pointed to Martha’s finger and said in a hoarse voice, "There is a canary sucking between your ring finger and middle finger. I have to get closer to see it. ."

   "Come on, then." Martha cried out to Xiao Ann Putnam, and deliberately rubbed her empty finger.

  Little Ann Putnam stood up and slowly approached Martha, but she collapsed on the ground in the middle, and covered her eyes with her hands.

  "You will make another woman lose her eyesight at the rally this week!" Xiao Ann Putnam yelled, "There is another man who will be roasted on a gloomy barbecue brazier."

  Everyone was shocked. There was a 19-year-old maid named Mosie Lewis in Putnam’s family. When she heard Xiao An’s accusation, she immediately picked up the stick and waved it to Martha.

   "No!" Xiao An shouted, "If you love yourself, don't do that!"

  However, it was too late. The stick almost hit Martha's body. At this moment, there seemed to be an invisible force. Lewis' stick was bounced back, and her arm was hit hard and she was forced to take a step back.

  "You hit Mossy Lewis with an iron rod!" Just as Martha watched this happen in shock, Xiao Ann shouted "Evil spirit!"

   "I think you can go back." Thomas Putnam said to Martha, and then the servant of Putnam's house forced Martha to leave.

  The family’s daughter and maid were attacked by evil spirits. Thomas Putnam was already worried. Thomas immediately asked his brother Edward to call the "superstar" Cotton Mather.

  With the help of Cotton Mather, the family's situation stabilized. The girls were so frightened that they sat on the chairs by the fire and sobbed, and the others were silent. In short, the atmosphere in the room was very dull and weird.

  "Have you seen these before, pastor?" Thomas Putnam asked Mather.

  Mather did not answer him.

  "You are very young." Putnam said, "Like Pastor Paris, do you know why the townspeople asked him to come to our parish?"

   "I heard it was because of Father Rosen's introduction." Mather said.

   "No, because no other pastor wants to come to Salem." Putnam said, "There must be evil forces here."

  Mather seems to be thinking about how to answer Thomas.

   "You may not know that Pastor Paris's previous wife, the wife and daughter of Pastor Rosen, were all killed by witchcraft." Thomas went on to say, "Their ghosts wandered around the area waiting for revenge."

   "What?" Mather asked in surprise.

"There are many towns that make the pastor's life miserable, but none is like Salem." Thomas said, "My wife's sister, she married Father Bailey, she died, and then Father Rosen's wife and daughter. Dead, there is another person, his name is George Burroughs, he is Bailey’s heir, but he only stayed in the town for 4 years before suddenly leaving Salem, he was succeeded by Deodat. Rosen, he also asked Paris to come to us."

   "Where did he go, I mean George Burroughs." Mather said.

  But as soon as his voice fell, the clock in the living room rang suddenly, and the hour hand pointed to 9 o'clock.

  The annoying voice echoed in the empty room, making people feel upset.

At this time, Mossi’s chair seemed to be held by an invisible hand, and the chair was pushed to the blazing fireside together with the chair. Brothers Mather and Putnam immediately rushed over and grabbed her. Up.

  Mosi kept screaming, the chair she had just sat on burned in the flames, and the three men held her upper body tightly, while her legs were pulled toward the fire by a huge force.

   "Help me!" Moxi said to Xiao Ann Putnam, but Xiao Ann seemed to be frightened and dare not move.

After a stalemate for about a minute or two, the force disappeared, and Moses Lewis began to twitch. Edward Putnam was so frightened that he stepped backwards and crawled for two steps. After a while, he pointed to Moses' arm and said, "She... There is a witch's mark on her arm."

  Mather immediately went to check Lewis’ arm, there was indeed a wound that looked like a flea bite.

  After the Black Death epidemic, many people found this trace on the corpse, so it became the so-called "sorrow of the witch".

   After a few days of calm and nothing, Mather began to run between Paris’s and Putnam’s.

Old Ann Putnam was in poor health due to a miscarriage, but she became pregnant again soon afterwards. She was exhausted and rested in bed. By 3 o'clock in the afternoon on March 18, she felt it. A heavy pressure almost made her breathless, she desperately called her maid, and she recovered her strength with Mather's help.

  Soon after the ghost of Martha Corey appeared, Xiao Ann was tortured beyond words. If there were no other men in the family, she would have been forced to sign her name on a little red book.

  The Putnam family, who was overwhelmed by the torture, filed a witchcraft charge with the court. The accused was Martha Corey, while Hassan was still looking for the Boston woman mentioned by Tituba.

  Martha Corey did not meet Tituba’s confession, which allowed her to attend the service on the rest day.

  When the believers learned that the court had issued an arrest warrant to arrest Martha Corey, everyone was terrified. They didn’t expect to pray with a living witch. Didn’t the devil be afraid of prayer?

  Originally, Giles believed that Martha was not a witch, but he was interrogated by Hassan alone to see if his wife was weird.

Then Giles remembered something many years ago. They just got married seven years ago and Martha asked him to go to bed. Giles said he wanted to pray, but he couldn't tell soon after he knelt by the fire Here comes the word.

  He couldn't even open his mouth. Martha noticed this, so she served him and lay down.

  Not long afterwards, a cat on the farm became abnormal, and Martha asked him to solve the pain of a cow, which was completely unnecessary, and she would always get up after he fell asleep.

   "I can feel that she is kneeling by the fire, as if praying." Giles said, "But I didn't hear her prayers, but I heard fragmented grunts."

   "A woman, why should she kneel by the fire late at night?" Hasan asked suggestively.

   Giles did not answer Hassan’s question.

  Although this means that he did not accuse Martha, nor did he draw a line with Martha like Osborne’s husband.

There is a painting called "American Gothic". The old rural farmer and peasant woman in the painting look very serious. There is no such thing as the “simple happy smile” that the city people hope to see on the farmers’ faces, but Who says they are not happy?

  This "hunting game" has changed. It is no longer men hunting women. There is another man who will become a victim. Who is it?

By the way, it should be the pastor named George Burroughs who graduated from Harvard. He is the only graduate in the history of Harvard who was accused of witchcraft. Although he seemed to have foreseen the danger in advance and fled Salem, But what should come will come, and there are some things that cannot be escaped, such as death.

  　 I’m not Gothic, I always say dead~ dead

  　　Love and Peace～y∩__∩y

  (End of this chapter)