Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1746 Queen of Hell (17)

  In the Middle Ages, wealthy knights wore armor during battle.

  However, for people wearing armor, rust is inevitable.

  The weather on the battlefield is unpredictable. No one knows whether it will rain in the wild, and the thick woolen cloak cannot withstand this kind of weather. Under normal circumstances, if the armor is put in a bucket of sand and polished and oiled regularly, it will not rust.

  But after strenuous exercise, the knight’s helmet will still leave rust on his face, as if blood has been soaked in the armor, even though he was only performing a military parade instead of fighting.

  According to the history of wizards, the goblin launched a rebellion in 1612. In fact, the goblin has launched a rebellion more than once, but the very **** one in 1612, and 19 years after the rebellion, the Wizarding Council promulgated the "Guidelines for the Use of Wands", which no longer allowed wizards to hold magic wands for the goblin.

  So when the old problem is not solved, the new problem arises again.

Wizarding historians believe that the dwarf that Abigail Wilmes saw in 1692 is probably the "dead fish eye" who participated in the goblin rebellion 80 years ago and was responsible for the death of the three witches. "Kooky" (fishykooky). When the Salem incident occurred, the Magic Congress of the United States had not yet been established, and the Wizarding Council of England rarely administers the New World. The vacuum of power gave some dark wizards and troublemakers the opportunity to "carnival".

  After the witch hunt began, the people being sued fell into the paradox of "I am not a thief" and "You must prove that you are not".

  Catch the thief and catch the stolen goods, can you prove that you are not a thief without the stolen goods? What if you destroy the evidence or sell the stolen goods?

  In the summer of 1692, you never want to appear in your neighbor’s dream. There are many dirty old things that have been turned out to make a fuss.

  After Rebecca Nath’s witchcraft accusation was established, her natal family, Town, in Topsfield, also suffered. The accusation of Nass was the person who appeared on her brother's land with an axe in the early years, and they had fought a lawsuit because of a territorial dispute.

   Fifty-three years ago, a sloppy priest acted hastily and crossed part of Tosfield's land across the Salem border. According to calculations, part of the land southwest of Tosfield belonged to the north of Salem. The early pioneers have been cutting down trees. They have obtained large farms and at the same time log resources have become scarce. A New England family consumes 30 to 40 bundles of wood each year, which is equivalent to more than an acre of woods, and provides enough wood. It is also a condition for Pastor Paris to agree to become a long-term pastor in Salem.

The Putnam family in Salem and the Towne family in Topsfield had long been grievances over log resources. Once a forest under the care of a weak farmer in the Putnam family was cut down by the Tosfield people. This was soon Arousing a fierce reaction from the Putnam family, there also appeared the group of people who appeared on the land of the Tang En house with an axe.

  The Essex County Court heard the Putnam’s complaints time and time again, but the court sided with the Town’s four times. As early as 1660, Salem and Tosfield fought a lawsuit. The cause of the case was a mare with a bright brown and black mane. It belonged to Sarah Wilds’ husband. , Was later found in Putnam’s barn. So the Nass family, the Tang family, the Este family, and the Wilds family united to fight the mare-related lawsuit with the Putnam family.

  The Tang family has three sisters, Rebecca and Mary. They are married to Nass, Addis and Hao Jia.

  Elizabeth Howe’s husband is a blind farmer and the youngest of the three sisters of the Tang family. He was 55 years old when he was accused. He can't take care of his farm. As a virtuous woman, Howe's farm has always been managed and operated by Elizabeth. The accusations against her are like a set of fairy tales. She made a brother-in-law’s sow jump three feet high, poisoned another brother-in-law’s cow with poisonous turnips, automatically emptied containers, disappeared fences, and amnesiaous apples. and many more. But her 94-year-old father-in-law said that she was always gentle enough to hold her husband's hand and also take care of their six children.

Topsfield’s assistant pastor spontaneously accompanied Howe to see the 10-year-old girl who lived in the town of Elizabeth Nightmare. The child twitched for a while. He never said anything bad about Elizabeth. Instead, it was the girl’s brother at the upstairs window. Shouted, "Say that the woman surnamed How is a witch! Say it!"

Mary Esti is an enthusiastic and cheerful 58-year-old woman who is the mother of seven children. She also lives in Topsfield. When she was in prison, she was very enthusiastic to befriend the fierce jailers, plus With the financial support of the husbands outside, the three of them had a pretty good life, and even Rebecca Nath and the mother and daughter Hopps became inmates.

Abigail Hops first sent her parents to prison, and later she was also put in prison. She was the one who claimed to have sold her soul to Satan. She was fearless, and later told John Wise. The girl who admitted that the testimony she said was fabricated.

   After she left, Susanna Sheldon replaced her. The girl had two previous convictions. She had witnessed Indian atrocities in Maine and had just fled to Salem.

  Almost on the same day Elizabeth Howe was tried, Sarah Wilds was also arrested, and it was the Hobbes family who accused her.

  It was her son who arrested them. At that time, Abigail Hops had hatred in his eyes. When accusing her, he did not mention the demon assembly, but raised the curse of hay and rope. Compared with the invisible hand of the demon, the flying pig, the cursed hay, and the randomly restored sickle left a deep impression on the judges, and the jury agreed that the two women were guilty.

  The daughter of the militia captain, Mary Walcott, is the most prosecuted, especially after Governor Phips came to Salem.

  Phips is preparing for a new Maine expedition. He needs to order military supplies and return hundreds of militiamen to their posts. These arrangements will be managed by Deputy Governor Stoutton when he is away.

  For the semi-illiterate governor, Stoughton disliked other educated people as much. They even fought for a while. In the early years, someone suggested Stoughton lock Phips.

Foreigners have seen such a big battle. A well-known Dutch businessman once wrote to Inchris Mather, expressing his concern. Maybe God is punishing New England, but the so-called Satan’s contract is too much. It’s unreasonable. It’s also unbelievable that witches can suffer such victims from a distance. At the same time, the victims who have been cursed seem to be deprived of their sanity and cannot return to normal. If they are not completely crazy, are they? Could it be a demon possessed?

  Not only Rebecca, but Elizabeth Howe also has witnesses willing to prove that she is a pious woman.

   Phipps proposed to pardon Nas at this time, not so much because he suspected the existence of witchcraft, but because of pressure, and there is no more conclusive evidence that Rebecca is a witch.

Humans can learn a lot from wolves. For male members of the family, how sweet the boy’s face, his innocence, and his carefreeness are all inferior to the talent of being Alpha among the wolves. valuable.

Among the wolves, there is an alpha female wolf and a male wolf in charge of leadership. Many people misunderstand male alpha as the "king of the world" that is aggressive, aggressive, and bullying, but zoologists will tell you that the real The male alpha is a fearless protector.

  Wolves hardly bark. Only dogs bark constantly. Alpha male wolves mainly show a kind of serene confidence. They know what is best for wolves. If they lead by example, wolves rarely bark. If you see a male Alpha constantly barking, bullying, or attacking individuals whose status is lower than his, it means that you are not encountering a real male Alpha, or an insecure Alpha. It has not gained the loyalty and trust of the group, and its sense of insecurity and fear has brought a crisis to the entire group.

Humans treat dogs as children. Dogs are actually domesticated from wolves. Their memory of observing Alpha has become its instinct. If a person walks a dog and finds that the dog runs rampant, he does not care about the owner or the owner needs to be loud. Talking dog only pays attention to him, that is, it does not regard the owner as Alpha at all, and it sends a signal that you can't control it at all.

The first thing in dog training is to let the dog know who controls its survival necessities-food. Among the wolves, Alpha always eats food first, followed by beta and gamma, even if doing so will start the owner and the dog. It’s hard to adapt, and you must do that. If the dog has aggressive behavior during dog training, the dog will either be trained by a professional or be killed with a shotgun. Otherwise, the owner will not know that he was asleep that day. Will not bite the owner's throat.

  The efficiency of the wolf pack comes from the level, and Alpha, Beta, and Gamma have their own tasks. The lowest level is Omega, which is the so-called losing dog. Omega is the last food in the wolves, and it is the air bag in the group, but it plays an important role in the cohesion of the wolves.

  Alpha has many challengers. Otherwise, an uneasy Alpha will not always attack other members to consolidate its position. Moreover, the old Alpha will go and there will be a new Alpha. But the loss of Omega from the wolves will enter a long period of mourning. The entire wolves stop hunting and just lie down, looking miserable, until the new Omega appears.

  No one wants to be the bottom. Compared to the leader, Omega is the most difficult to be replaced easily. The new Omega means that a group member must be demoted, or a new, foreign lone wolf will join.

  The lone wolf who usually wanders alone is the most terrifying. It may even challenge the Alpha of the original wolf pack. Any idiot who is too self-conscious to provoke it may lose the rank and become an Omega. Or the lone wolf itself is very weak. It just wants to find a place to settle down. In any case, losing Omega will make the entire group lose stability. After all, wolves are different from other species. The roles in the group are allocated according to their strength. of.

The greatest tragedy of mankind is that through hereditary and legal systems, some people who do not have natural talents but are considered qualified to be assigned to the position of Alpha, such as Louis XVI, did not have a leader or become a leader. With Alpha's talent, he is a good locksmith, but he struggles to manage members who don't respect him.

  Naturally produced alphas are sometimes on the edge, they are far from the correct position, and sometimes they have to watch the organization being led by unsuitable alphas to failure.

The former Governor Andros did not leave after being ousted by the people of Massachusetts. The witchcraft panic gave him new opportunities. People found that the disgusted Andros could protect Maine better than the incompetent local government who expelled him. Under the leadership of the interim government, New England lost peace, order, and security.

Philip Inglisch was the first suspect that the sheriffs could not find. This sensitive businessman was caught outside after hiding for a month. The accusation was Susanna Sheldon. She said at the time that Philip In the light of the new moon, Ingrish visited her with a book and a knife, threatening to kill his greatest enemy, the new Governor Phipps.

During the Battle of Agincourt during the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War, Henry once ordered all French soldiers to be released, no matter what their status, but they are conditionally released. If the British win the decisive battle tomorrow, they will continue to do so. His captives, if the British lose, the French will be completely free.

  This can save resources and free up the British manpower without having to look after these prisoners.

  The second is to let the French know that surrender can survive. The British did not kill these prisoners forever. Even the peasants can pay the ransom like the nobles without having to die.

The French happily agreed, but the British did not sleep well all night, worrying that the released prisoners would regret it, and because of the unlucky weather, the rain kept falling, and it was impossible to dry the clothes, let alone lying down. On the dry bed.

  The only thing they can do is take out the rusty armor and polish it in the sand. The British are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, while the French have thousands of heavy cavalry.

  It seemed that Henry had no chance of winning, but Henry chose a forest to lay out his formation to avoid cavalry and infantry charging. More importantly, this battlefield was just plowed by farmers, and people planted winter wheat on it.

This proves that these soils are not the higher-quality sandy soil in the French vineyards, but the thick clay of the Somme. After heavy rains, it will become very muddy, and the cavalry wearing heavy armor will be trapped in it and difficult to escape. At this time, those "iron cans" "It will become a target for the English Longbowmen.

  Among the judges who expelled Andros, five later became judges in the witchcraft case. Before 1692, slander was prevalent in New England, when a woman was whipped twenty times for calling another woman a witch. When the counterclaim came, people were often busy shutting up and keeping silent. Francis Nass has won defamation and rumors, but he did not take any judicial proceedings in 1692.

   was replaced by Cotton Mather’s admonition, “If a neighbor of a chosen saint is guilty, then that saint will also be to blame.”

   Then I saw Giles Corey become the first male wizard to be accused.

  Hearing the wind like Elizabeth Cary, it’s impossible to go to Salem in order to prove her innocence. For a helpless woman, running away seems to be the only solution.

  But it is wrong to do that. Compared with the brainstorming task of interrogation, the sheriff with the arrest warrant desires this kind of "hunting" feeling.

The "superstar" said to the church members during the sermon, "The Almighty God allows the king to protect our government, while the devil tries to prevent the government from staying. The red-clothed and worshipping gang invaded New England and used the local area brutally. People, their leader broke into the colony’s chapel, cooperated with the French and bought the Indians. One Indian also vowed that Andros intended to give the colony to the heathen enemies. He also summoned additional British soldiers and conspired to follow Boston began to overthrow all towns in New England."

  There are many kinds of silver coins issued by Caesars, which can be roughly divided into two categories, one is military currency and the other is ordinary currency. The army currency is generally produced by the army currency factory. On the eve of the decisive battle between Caesars crossing the Rubicon and Pompey, Caesar issued a silver coin with an elephant stomping on a snake on the front, which means that power defeats evil. The elephant’s footline says Caesar's name. On the back are the wine spoons, ***, high hats and flail used for the sacrifice, like his unshakable position as the high priest of Eros.

  Some people may refuse to receive flyers, but no one refuses to receive money. This military payment can be understood as a small advertisement for political propaganda, which is used to boost morale.

There are also commanders who will give the soldiers a good meal and say something to boost morale. After all, it is possible that this meal will be the last supper, but for the soldiers, no matter what bread the commander drew, they did not put it in his stomach The reality.

  Although the 17-year-old's dying last words were that John Conrad pinched him, it was Ann Putnam who really accused him, even though Conrad helped round up the first few suspects.

  She is a witness. Of course, to be honest, one of the three ghosts standing by her bed was him. He also confided that he had killed at least thirteen villagers in the form of ghosts.

She said the names of the victims one by one, and a series of unfortunate explanations made everyone re-examine the unfortunate events at home. In Essex County, stomach cramps, bladder problems, numbness, deafness and various abnormalities are all With an explanation, it seems that the old Ann and Xiao Ann of the Putnam family are going to replace Rebecca and her sisters as the new female Alpha.

  The male alpha in the wolf pack is not always the leader, they die very early, the female alpha is older, and they are as experienced as the old grandmothers in the pack.

  The older the elephant, the longer the ivory. After poachers kill the old grandmother, the safety of the elephant herd will be threatened. Losing her elephant herd will fall into long-term mourning.

  Some elephants will remember that kind of hatred. They will run rampant when they see humans. Elephants will not only trample snakes, but also people will trample them to death.

Family feuds are passed on from generation to generation. Thomas Putnam asked his nephew to sue Rebecca Nath not for any room for return, but to pass on this hatred to the next generation. He accuses him to prove that he has a share. .

  It is difficult to get out of the muddy water. It is impossible for John Conrad to leave if he gets tired of the girls.

Using witchcraft to curse Daniel Wilkins, John Conrad is definitely going to be gallows, but she may not have thought that it will turn from a civil case to a criminal case, and people outside can write petitions beyond reasonable doubt. Book, and this also gave Francis Nass a chance to fight back.

  The accused John Conrad will of course run away, but the former sheriff was arrested after only running for a week, but Philip Ingrid ran for a month.

  If even the length of the wandering time had to be compared, Conrad lost again, what position would a person like him be in the wolves?

  (End of this chapter)