Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1749 The Queen of Hell (20)

  If Salem broke people's illusions about idyllic love, Andover is even more desperate than Salem.

This is not to say that Andover has experienced a natural disaster, but that this small village of only 600 people is more lifeless than Salem, a town of 8,000 people. In any case, Salem has also competed with Boston. , Almost became the capital of Massachusetts.

The fun part of "witch hunting" lies in resistance. Whether it is they desperately defending themselves in court, or trying to escape, the kind of "witches" who are crying and crying and being pulled by their husbands, sons, and brothers to plead guilty do not look at them. It makes the investigators feel disgusted, hated, and fearful, but it makes people feel pity.

  They are like lambs in the wilderness. The Indians at that time had been confused with wolves and demons. The devil always appeared in the wilderness. Moses took the Israelites to wander around and **** encountered them when he traveled in the wilderness. The men accused them of sleeping with Indians. The servant will accuse the mistress, but the mistress will not accuse the servant, the wife will not accuse the husband, but the husband will not file a defamation lawsuit to defend the wife. These women have to endure the pain of standing for a long time, not sleeping, and being mercilessly questioned. Moreover, staying innocent is tantamount to proving their sins, so the witches of Andover confess very quickly. Many people don’t know what they should believe. Others began to believe what others told them.

There is a elder brother who is the principal of a primary school. He has a way to tell the child to tell the truth. He warns his sister not to lie. She is a witch. The girl begged to say, "Good brother, don’t say that. If I admit it, it’s a lie. I should How to explain to God?" But her brother remained unmoved and insisted that she was complicit with Satan. He could not watch so many good people be blinded by her. She did not admit that she would eventually be hanged. In the end, the girl couldn't stand it. She was so mentally tortured that she told the marshals to send her to prison as soon as possible.

Perhaps for these farmers, women’s value is about the same as cows or furniture. Otherwise, they are the embodiment of original sin and require strict discipline. The confessions of these girls are usually "I have always been a disobedient——", and then they are obedient. Repeated everything that others had said to her. At first, Cotton Mather was surprised when he heard that there were so many wizards in Andover. He came to see him once. Later, he couldn't stand these villagers and started investigating Richard. De Carrier said it was the place of the demon baptism.

  About the middle of the 17th century, there was an independent denomination among the Puritans. They were named Baptist school because they were completely immersed in water. They opposed infant baptism and insisted that adults can choose whether to accept baptism. Apart from baptism, this denomination does not have any ceremonial regulations, including the sacrament. Pastors are hired by the congregation without deacons. They are very liberal in doctrine and etiquette, and the most important thing is that without the intermediary of clergy and the church, believers can directly feel the connection with God, which is the same as the Puritans. .

The original purpose of    was to oppose the tyranny, corruption and red tape of the clergy of priests, and to pursue a simple, realistic, and equal life of believers before God, but later it deteriorated. The Puritans soon discovered that it is difficult for people to accept complete charity. If one cannot be saved by oneself and has nothing to do with one's efforts to do good or bad, then there can always be signs and signs. This job was previously done by the pastor. For example, the pastor has the right to interpret. The merits of the previous saints are accumulated. After they are redeemed, they can not be used up. They can be sold to sinners who buy indulgences for their sins. .

The Puritans felt that success was earned by themselves, and success was the grace of God, which was similar to what the saints did. The occupation at that time was not “job” but “calling”, which was similar to Call of Duty, which was often seen in recruitment advertisements. To this word, it has a certain religious meaning and represents a task arranged by God. Becoming a rich man is God’s arrangement, and becoming a general is also God’s arrangement. Bankruptcy is not God’s arrangement. It is not God’s arrangement to be a prisoner in a defeated war. At this time, believers should not complain about others, but look for other "calling". Soldiers, captured soldiers can claim to be merchants and do fur business with Indians. As long as he can bury his head in it, it is a sign that this person has been chosen for redemption.

  The world is our monastery, and the work in this world is our way of monasticism, and it is a task arranged by God.

  The vocation will increase wealth. If someone asks how he knows God’s will for him, the answer will be based on the inheritance God has given him.

  This forms a kind of hegemony, contemptuous of the losers and admiring the winners. But at that time elitism had not yet formed, nor did the rich have the moral equivalent, otherwise Giles Corey and Philip Inglisch would not be charged for their misdeeds, and no one looks like Rebecca. · Nas also interceded for them.

  The characteristic of the elite is a kind of arrogance. They feel that they are more civilized than the nobles, but they don't believe that there will be people like Andover Village in the world. College degree is already very low for them, shouldn't elementary school teachers be sweet female teachers?

In fact, there are still Puritans in some places in the 21st century. They will leave the village for a year after they reach adulthood, and decide whether to leave their parents and live in American society, or return to the village to live again. During this year, they will live a very indulgent life. , But most of them will choose to go back to the village. As Puritans, they still rely on horse-drawn carriages to travel, as if they still lived more than 300 years ago.

  The elites left "Electricity", almost as if they had entered the jungle. If they were followed by someone who was chasing them with a shotgun, then they could make a thriller.

What’s worse is that those people are their neighbors. Because of the uncertainty about the future, many people at the bottom began to believe in divination and voodoo. They believed in divination with the Puritans hundreds of years ago, and came to find what they called “signs”, Amdo. There is not even a fortuneteller in this small village, and they want to share the fortuneteller in Salem.

According to logic, those who show palmistry should be arrested as witches first. The Salem Witch Trial is characterized by confession. Sarah Good and Bridget Bishop are types of "witches" at first sight. La Goode confessed to Osborne, and Osborne confessed to others, **** more and more, and now the devil simply started the party directly. He appeared in Amdo as a man wearing a top hat. In an orchard in Fife.

He met the brothers there. In the past, Andrew stammered when he talked, and he spoke smoothly after meeting the devil. Two months ago, when Salem's milk fermented into butter and the villagers planted corn, a large number of witches landed on Paris. On the lawn of their home, the farthest of them was from Connecticut.

There was a large table and chairs on the lawn. The devil was sitting at one end of the holy table. Rebecca Nath and Elizabeth Proctor were chanting curses while distributing red bread and blood wine. At that time, Abigail Huo Booth’s mother and daughter were also present, and Rebecca convinced them that they were drinking blood, but more luscious than wine. Martha Carrier, who was selected as the "Queen of Hell," was also in charge of pouring the wine. Obviously if the wine was served Represents the queen, so there is more than one candidate for the queen.

  As for the bread, it was as red as raw meat, and the amount was not large. Not everyone got it. Mary Lacey's grandmother Ann Foster didn't get it. Fortunately, she brought her own food.

  Richard Carril’s younger brother Andrew Carril drank but did not eat, and because he was sitting too far away, he could not hear what the devil said when he presided over the sacrament.

  Later, the devil took out a book, some of them used blood, some used fingers, some used sticks and pens, and some people wrote their names on the white bark.

The devil agreed to Richard to give him new clothes and horses, and use land and houses to seduce Andrew. It paid off the debts of a farmer who was busy with the livelihood of a family of his family, and gave him the position of Captain Andover Carpenter's Militia .

  The conditions of these promises are to help him overthrow the church, cancel the judgment day, remove the sense of shame and guilt, and make all living beings equal. Martha Carrier boasted that she would take care of everything underground like a pastor.

Two days after the Carrier brothers confessed their remorseful testimony, John Proctor asked for some papers. As the first man arrested, he was imprisoned in Boston prison since the end of April. Later, his family almost All were arrested and imprisoned.

  He wrote a petition behind bars. He had also appeared in court as a suspect before to testify, but this did not turn him from a defendant to a plaintiff.

The court clerk said that the Carrier brothers were **** for a while when they were escorted out, but John Proctor saw more than that. At first Andrew Carrier didn’t want to admit anything, until the five-flower tie was dumped. As for the nosebleed, he started to confess.

If it were not for the intervention of officials, this torture would last all night. The key is that Proctor’s son was also dumped, so after he received the letter, he wrote to five famous pastors in Boston, including Cotton · Mather's father Ingersoll Mather and Samuel Conrad, he thinks sympathetic people.

  He said in the letter that a terrible judicial injustice is about to happen. He not only speaks for himself, but also speaks for his inmates, all of whom are innocent. Before entering the court, the suspects have been convicted, and most of their properties no longer exist. After John Proctor was arrested, George Corwin raided his family’s 15-acre farm, sold and slaughtered cattle, confiscated Proctor’s property, and left his family’s 11 young children. A little bit of food.

Proctor did not rebuke the court like Cary, nor did he refute the allegations as fiercely as Alden, nor did he slander the girls. He asked the priests to either appoint another judge or reduce prejudice, the Salem court. People are as cruel as the sheriff. Can you send more pastors? All he wants is a fair trial.

  England has abolished the religious inquisition very early. Probably Proctor had never heard of the divine verdict and the “drilling water” method, so he came up with the idea of ​​letting the pastor be the presiding judge.

His trial was held on August 2nd. On the morning of August 1st, the pastors gathered on the second floor of the Harvard University Library to discuss the topic of the Salem trial. They thought that someone might have been implicated by innocent people. It includes three of Proctor's letter appealing.

  In civil justice, innocent people are rarely tried by the court, and priests can exonerate certain people when necessary, as long as they work hard to ensure that certain cases do not reach the stage of trial. There are wizards in Massachusetts, but Stoughton’s court is too cold, and there is no probation. This allows the prisoner to escape regardless of the consequences. Two days after the Judge Salem ordered the arrest of the Andover suspect, Captain Cary’s wife She broke away from her eight-pound yoke, and the suspect Philip Inglisch and his wife also escaped without a trace. There was also a 16-year-old girl named Elizabeth Colson who was issued in court. She was nowhere to be seen at the time of the arrest warrant. She is said to have fled to Boston, where the sheriff and one of his men are looking for her everywhere.

  They are carrying dogs. It is not like catching prisoners at all, but hunting animals.

  The pastor Moody who helped the Ingrishy couple escape was also at the meeting, but he could not behave abnormally, and the pastor was not safe. Burroughs was an example.

Elizabeth Coulson is like a tender and juicy prey. Witch hunting, especially young and beautiful witches, can arouse human bloodthirsty instincts. If she is older and ugly, perhaps the sheriffs will chase her goodbye. The shaman now.

  Unfortunately, Massachusetts does not have many forests, otherwise it might be safer to run into the forest.

  If there is no authority to declare that he was sent by God, and the laws he promulgated are also from God, then other people have no obligation to obey. This is the description of the Christian state system in Leviathan.

  There is a pastor who calmly told those believers sitting on benches under the altar: We are born equal.

  There is another pastor who told and told the believers on the bench: We are not born equal, and we will not be so when we die. So why do we pretend to be equal while we are alive?

  Which of these two priests looks more like a demon pretending?

If the one meeting in the backyard of Pastor Paris’s house is the devil, he said all beings are equal, and the other said, “We are not born equal, and we will not be so when we die. Then why do we pretend to be equal while we are alive?” The real pastor, is this acceptable to those who pursue equality?

  If the devil is not gathering in the backyard, why does the justice of the peace use witchcraft to search for the wealth of others?

  The authority represented by the judge is unfair, and other people have no obligation to obey, and those who escape from prison and resist arrest will appear.

  In the process of resisting arrest, it is inevitable to use violence. A weak girl faces two big men and a dog. She is not a real wizard. Guns are her only protection.

Well, she shouldn’t resist arrest, she should obey the sheriff, then go to the unfair court, accept the punishment of a “civil case” and be hanged. What crime did she commit and she was actually a minor by Xiaoan Putnam That gang accused of being witches?

  If it’s just a quarrel between little girls, isn’t it a bit too cruel, to death?

  Who gave them so much power?

  Not everyone can eat bread contaminated with ergot bacteria.

  (End of this chapter)