Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1740 The Queen of Hell (11)

  Why do children swallow needles?

41-year-old Elizabeth Proctor is the second wife of 60-year-old John Proctor. John’s first wife gave birth to 5 children, Elizabeth had 6 children, plus what she had in her belly That, there are 12 children in total, and she usually reads and teaches maids to read. These all require a quiet environment, but when 11 children get together, there will always be big bullies and small ones, or they will ignore one or two, and then they will swallow the needle when Elizabeth is not paying attention.

Needle swallowing is not a small thing in the 21st century, but humans have X-rays, which can look at the condition of the child’s body. People in the 17th century did not have this technique. When a child swallows a needle, there is basically only surgery. The conditions at the time were very dangerous.

  The child has invaded Elizabeth's personal time, and it disturbs her to be uneasy. Of course, she will become moody, and Jasmine is often tortured and crying by the twins. Of course, the pastor will promote the benefits of having more children. The problem is that they are not the ones who look after the children. Elizabeth can't be too busy to take care of the diet and daily life of so many children.

Not every servant is faithful and honest. The number 13 is very unlucky. Originally, **** had only 12 disciples, but Judas betrayed him for 30 silver coins, and people chose one of Jesus’ disciples to replace Judas’ apostleship. In total, it is 13 disciples.

  Sometimes, no matter how good the master is to the servant, they don’t appreciate it. On the contrary, they might even put a wolf into the house. Servants and children know many secrets in the family, and the way for a servant to be loyal to the master is to reveal those secrets.

  When preaching, the pastor would advocate the master to show off his servants, and the servants are willing to give. The actual situation is that the male servant tried to steal the master’s gold and silver jewelry and escape, while the maid was pregnant with the master’s child. Listening to other people's bad things is a kind of entertainment for the master, but when they listen, most of them don't know that their property is also being stolen by the maid, which becomes the entertainment of other people's homes.

  For decades, Massachusetts has gained a reputation for misconduct. London has accused the settlers of being independent. Those noble lords wearing wigs have set up cumbersome trade regulations, which makes businessmen feel very annoying.

  Queen Mary once ordered New England residents to set up a complete postal system. Some people may die in 4 days due to smallpox, but it takes 15 months to reach Europe. Without the knowledge of most New Englanders, their new governor Phips has already taken office.

  Yes, the long-legged Englishman did not say that he would send a British nobleman as the governor, but he did not say that he would not appoint a governor. Phips was a pioneer in New England. This strong, vulgar, muscular, and powerful jazz is very good at swearing. Even the old sailors who have been around for a long time will admire his ability to swear. At the same time, he is also a brave soldier. In 1689, he rushed from London to Boston to deliver the message of the Glorious Revolution. While on the ship, he was thinking about how to remove the criticized Governor-General Andros, but he only discovered this work six weeks ago after he went ashore. That was done, and the Bostonians launched an uprising to drive the Governor away.

  In 1690, he led a land and sea expedition to Canada to fight the French. He planned to completely drive the French out of North America and dominate the fur trade and fishing grounds of Maine.

It was this costly expedition that made Inglis Mather intend to join forces with him. However, when Phipps received the Governor’s charter in December 1691, he still could not identify the true and false charter, because according to the old The charter, his position needs to be elected through elections, and his deputy governor is 60-year-old William Stoughton, who has worked for New England for 20 years and has undergone four generations of regime change.

  In the past few decades, New England has shown religious tolerance to everyone, as long as it is a high-income earner, whether he is a church member or not, he can vote. If the new governor was a New England Puritan, the province would have ignored the royal family's orders, and at the same time, the royal family's various advisers were lobbying for those who shared their interests. Phipps is accepted by all parties because he does not belong to any party and does not have any political experience, which makes many immigrants feel that they have been deceived. Merchants would rather go back to the previous state of autonomy than be ruled by a reckless man, while the Orthodox Christians hoped to restore the original charter.

These high-income groups with voting rights are disgusted with Phips, because he used to break the law and get rid of legal sanctions by taking bribes. Phips is a role somewhat similar to the godfather of the Mafia, and Phips at this time In addition to dealing with dissatisfaction, Si also had to deal with the privateers of Indians and French at the border.

When the brochure about Salem’s supernatural attacks that Rosen wrote was spread throughout Boston, he was busy dealing with urgent national events, and all he did to this kind of illusory “confusion” was to delegate Several judges were sent to fill the empty seats left by Andros’s men. One of them was Samuel Sewell. He and the investigator entrusted by the Deputy Governor, 69-year-old Thomas Danfoss and several officials went to Salem as reinforcements.

Because of the arrival of these prestigious people, the venue of the trial was moved from the village chapel to the more refined and bright chapel in the town, where the pastor Samuel Paris was demoted to become a court clerk, responsible for the first male suspect. That's how people's trials are held.

  The defendant at the time was Giles Corey, and John Proctor stood on the witness stand. In this witchcraft accusation, the logic of the accusation is often better than the alibi. In the philosophy class at Harvard, it was said that metaphysical thinking is also called intellectual thinking. Its core is formal logic, which was first proposed by Aristotle. It consists of the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity. In the same thinking process, the object reflected by a thought or concept is fixed, and the two judgments of a problem must be true and false, such as the ship of Theseus. If the wood on the ship is replaced, it is still The original ship?

  Aristotle believed that although the material of the ship has changed, the design of the ship has not changed, so the ship is still that ship.

  The disadvantage of this kind of intellectual thinking is to use some abstract thinking rules to view events from an isolated and static point of view. Thomas Danfoss withdrew the charge of witchcraft in 1659. He also worked for Harvard for decades in management and finance. He also worked in the legislature. He also participated in the anti-Andros coup and defended the loss of the colony. Charter.

  With this authority, Judge Samuel Sewell stepped aside. The first thing he did after arriving in Salem was to organize a chorus, in order to restore Salem’s lifeless morale in this way. As a result, John Indian was attacked on the sermon after the chorus.

Danfors first interrogated Sarah Croys. Faced with John Indian’s accusation, she shouted "You are a big liar!". Most of the later confessions came from girls, including Paris's niece. Abigail Williams said that on March 31, the day of public fasting, another group of people ate and drank behind Paris’s house. For those people, what they ate was "Holy Supper."

Of course, this kind of sacrament is not the Eucharist received from the priest of the church, but a kind of red bread eaten when the demons meet. Sarah Croyce and Sarah Good served as deacons. Rosen said before , The stronger the faith, the easier it is to be attacked, so in order to gain more power, 40 witches participated in the blood-drinking ceremony.

  At this moment, Sarah Croys asked for water, and then she passed out on her seat. After she was helped to leave, she was brought to trial next to the pregnant woman Elizabeth Proctor.

  Danfoss is also the father of twelve children. He knows how to communicate with his children. Abigail was confused by his question and was in a long trance.

  At this time, John Indian began to testify that Elizabeth Proctor, who was dressed in revealing clothes, had caught his neck.

  This is the characteristic of male accusations of witches, and it is inevitable that it has something to do with exposure and temptation. When Danforth asked John Indian twice whether she was sure of her identity, Abigail and Ann Putnam wanted to fight Elizabeth together.

  They scratched and scratched in court, but were stopped by the sheriff. Just as Abigail's hand brushed Elizabeth's headscarf, Abigail began to mourn in pain.

  Someone checked her hand, and her finger was burned, just as magical as she did not get burnt when she took out charcoal from the fire and threw it everywhere.

Then the girls fell to the ground. They pointed to the beam of the chapel, the ghost of Elizabeth Proctor, the wizard’s wife was standing there, and soon they warned that John Proctor would throw warm hands. The tube of Joshua Pope floats in the air.

  At that moment, Pope really floated off the ground with his feet.

"How do you explain it?" Danfoss asked John Proctor, who was thankful that he was better off first, and accused Giles Corey of igniting him with the hand of a demon during the interrogation the day before. On the roof of the house, Proctor himself is now the subject of trial.

   Before he could answer, Abigail pointed to two older women and said, "Proctor is going to attack you."

  The two old women were taken aback, and then really began to be distorted in pain. Abigail cried at this time and said, "Look, the devil will deceive you."

  Danfoss warned John Proctor, “Before the women are injured, the children will be able to see what you are going to do. You'd better change yourself. Satan is just playing with you.

"I...I don't!" John Proctor explained to people in vain, "I love my wife. She has children for me, and also helps me manage the tavern and 700 acres of farm. Why should I hurt her? ?"

  No one listens to him.

  "Trust me." He said to Pope's husband, "As long as Pastor Paris allows me to stay with that Indian for a few minutes, I will find the devil in his body!"

Still no one believes him, perhaps except for one person, that is the first arrested witch Bridget Bishop’s husband Edward Bishop. He took the Indians back to Salem Village in the afternoon, and John began to convulse on the way. , Even bit Bishop's shoulder.

  Bishop beat him with a branch, and John quickly returned to normal.

  A fight can restore those with spasms to normal, but who can beat those weak girls except John Proctor?

In addition to Bridget Bishop, Mary Allen was also the first to be suspected. The trial judge on the day of her interrogation was Hassan. She was originally the victim, but now she has become the accused witch, just like her master John. Proctor, the girl took all the roles to herself.

The pressure of the interrogation broke her down. She couldn't tell which side she was on. She just kept crying and apologized, and she didn't know who she was apologizing to. In the end, the priest and the judge took her down and spent the night in prison. At the interrogation the next day, she passed all the blame to John Proctor.

  He threatened her to sign a book. If she doesn’t sign, he won’t save her the next time she gets into the water or spasms in the fire. If she exposes them, she will be torn to pieces, and Proctor insults her privately, she is beautiful, of course someone believes that, so Proctor would first Giles Corey. The first wizard accused of Salem.

  Hassan asked when interrogating Bridget Bishop, "You deny that you are a witch, then how do you know that you are not a witch?"

  Bishop did not react, Hassan asked again, "You don't know what a witch is, how can you know that you are not a witch?"

  Bridget was angry, and she cursed, "I'm a witch, I will let you know my power soon!"

  "Are you threatening me?" Hassan asked.

  Bishop did not answer.

   "I will not forget what you just said." Hassan looked at the secretary, "Please make sure to record it. Do you know that someone else has already confessed."

   "I don't know." Bishop said wearily.

   "Hey, you told a big lie." Two men said angrily, "We have told her most of the things."

Bishop did not say like Martha Corey, "Since you are going to hang me, you are still looking for so many reasons." Maybe she just wants to go back to the prison and stay alone for a while, away from this full of threats, screams, A "reasonable court" of quarreling, scolding, ranting, and insulting.

  Galileo was also judged by religious trials because he used Copernicus's logic.

Scholastic philosophy always uses logic to debate. This is contrary to the combination of modern physical theory and practice. However, the motion of celestial bodies is not something that can be easily tested like "two iron **** hit the ground at the same time". People are not Atlas. Lift a globe.

  The debate between Ptolemy and Copernicus is like two judgments of a problem, one is true and the other is false, but no matter how they argue, they are all discoverers, and they are not the ones who designed this system.

  A basic law of Copernicus's physics and philosophy is: no observer has a special position.

Geocentric theory means that the earth does not move, and other planets move around it, including the sun. In fact, the solar system is also in motion. Heliocentric theory is also setting up a stationary celestial body, but the sun is not an observer, but a celestial body being observed. Galileo thought that mathematicians could cover up the past, but the authority of the church was soon discovered.

  They don’t support heliocentric, saying that doesn’t mean they don’t understand. The world has been chaotic because of the Protestants. If the order of the celestial bodies is also chaotic, what else is there to stay in chaos?

  Hassan has reason to dislike Burroughs, not only because Burroughs is his ex-brother-in-law, but also because such a heroic pioneer is a priest. Religious courts are responsible for the proof and interrogation of priests, not judges who graduated from Harvard.

In addition, Burroughs was also a witness when the state government withdrew the militia from Casco in 1690. It was precisely because of this transfer that Casco was burned and sued Burroughs. The judges could count the failure as his. On the head, excuse yourself from guilt.

  There was a question. The king, the bishop, and the rich man asked the soldiers to kill the other two, and then gave the soldiers everything they wanted. Who did the soldiers listen to?

  Now there is such a coin in front of the soldiers. On its front is the emperor with a laurel crown, and on the back is a cross. It is currently rotating. Who would he think is the last side facing upwards?

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