Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1746 The Queen of Hell (Seventeen)
In the Middle Ages, wealthy knights would wear armor when they went to war.

However, for people who wear armor, rust is inevitable.

The weather on the battlefield is unpredictable, and no one knows whether it will rain in the field, and the thick wool cloak cannot resist this kind of weather.Under normal circumstances, if the armor is put in a bucket of sand and is buffed and oiled regularly, it will not rust.

But after strenuous exercise, the knight's helmet still leaves rust marks on his face, as if blood has soaked into the armor, even if he was only performing parade and not fighting.

According to Wizarding History, the Goblins rebelled in 1612.In fact, goblins launched more than one rebellion, but the one in 1612 was particularly bloody, and led to the Wizarding Council promulgating the "Guidelines for the Use of Magic Wands" 19 years after the rebellion, which no longer allowed wizards to hold wands for goblins.

As a result, new problems arise while old problems remain unresolved.

Wizarding historians believe the dwarf Abigail Wilms saw in 1692 was most likely the "dead fisheye" who took part in the goblin rebellion 80 years earlier and was responsible for the deaths of three witches. "fishy kooky".When the Salem incident happened, the Magical Congress of America had not yet been established, and the wizarding council in England seldom managed the New World. The vacuum of power gave some dark wizards and troublemakers the opportunity to "carnival".

After the witch hunt began, the people who were prosecuted fell into the paradox of "I am not a thief" and "You have to prove that you are not".

To catch a thief and seize stolen goods, does not having stolen goods prove that you are not a thief?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 are brought out and made a big fuss.

After Rebecca Nurse was found guilty of witchcraft, her natal family, Towne of Topsfield, also suffered.The accusers against Nass were the ax-wielding men who showed up on her brother's land in the early days, and they had fought lawsuits over territorial disputes.

Fifty-three years ago a sloppy clergyman acted recklessly and moved part of Torsfield's land beyond the Salem border, so that part of the land southwest of Torsfield was calculated to belong to the north of Salem.The early pioneers had been cutting down trees, and while they acquired large farms, log resources became scarce. A New England family consumed 53 to 30 bundles of wood a year, equivalent to more than an acre of woods, and providing enough wood It was 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 had a feud over log resources. Once a forest guarded by a weak farmer in the Putnam family was felled by the Topsfields. It caused a fierce reaction from the Putnam family, and the group of people wielding axes appeared on the Tang En family's land.

The Essex County Court heard the Putnams complain again and again, but the court sided with the Townes on all four occasions.As early as 1660, Salem v. Torsfield was engaged in a lawsuit over a mare with a light brown and black mane that belonged to the husband of Sarah Wildes , was later found in the Putnam family's barn.So the Nas family, Towne family, Esty family and Wildes family, the four families joined forces to fight the lawsuit related to the mare with the Putnam family.

The Towne family has three sisters, Rebecca and Mary, who married Nas, Edith and Howe respectively.

Elizabeth Howe's husband, a blind farmer, was the youngest of three Towne sisters and was 55 at the time of the charges.He can't take care of his own farm. As a virtuous woman, Howe's farm has always been managed and operated by Elizabeth.The accusations against her are a collection of fairy tales, she made one brother-in-law's sow jump three feet high, poisoned another brother-in-law's cow with poisonous turnips, self-emptying containers, disappearing fences, amnesiac apples etc.But her 94-year-old father-in-law said she was always tenderly holding her husband's hand and caring for their six children.

The assistant pastor of Topsfield spontaneously accompanied Howe to watch the 10-year-old girl who lived in Elizabeth Nightmare Town. Shouted "Say that Howe woman is a witch! Say it!"

Mary Esty is a warm and cheerful 58-year-old woman, mother of seven, who also lives in Topsfield. When she was in prison, she was very enthusiastic and befriended the fierce guards, plus With the financial support of their husbands outside, the three of them lived fairly well, and even Rebecca Nas and the Hopps mother and daughter became cellmates.

Abigail Hopps, who first sent her parents to prison and then herself, was the one who claimed to have sold her soul to Satan and was fearless, and later to John Wise The girl who admitted that the testimony she gave was made up.

She was replaced by Suzanne Sheldon, a girl with two ex-cons who had just fled to Salem after witnessing Indian atrocities in Maine.

About the same day that Elizabeth Howe was tried, Sarah Wildes was arrested, and the Hobbs family accused her.

It was her son who had gone to arrest them, and Abigail Hopps, with hatred in his eyes, accused her not of the devil's assembly, but of the hay and the rope curse.Flying pigs, cursed hay, and haphazardly restored scythes compared to the invisible demon's hand impressed the judges, and the jury unanimously found the two women guilty.

The militia captain's daughter, Mary Walcott, was the most accused, especially after Governor Phipps came to Salem.

Phipps was in the process of organizing a new Maine expedition. He needed to order supplies and get hundreds of militiamen back to duty. Lieutenant Governor Stoughton was in charge of these arrangements in his absence.

Stoughton disliked the semi-literate governor as much as other educated people, and they even had a big fight. In the early years, some people suggested that Stoughton should lock up Phipps.

There was such a big fight, and foreigners also saw it. A well-known Dutch businessman once wrote to Inchs Mather, expressing his concern that maybe God was punishing New England, but the so-called Satanic contract was too It is unreasonable. It is also unbelievable that witches can treat victims from a long distance. At the same time, those victims who have been cursed seem to be deprived of reason and cannot return to normal. If they are not completely crazy, are they Possessed by a demon?
Not only Rebecca, but Elizabeth Howe also had witnesses willing to prove that she was a godly woman.

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

Humans can learn a lot from wolves, and to the male members of the family, how sweet the boy's face, his innocence, and his carelessness are nothing compared to the gift of being the alpha of the wolf pack valuable.

There is an alpha female wolf and a male wolf in charge of the wolf pack. Many people misunderstand the alpha male as the "king of the world" who is aggressive, fierce and bullying, but zoologists will tell you that the real Male alphas are fearless protectors.

Wolves hardly bark, and only dogs bark constantly. The alpha male mainly presents a kind of serene self-confidence. He knows what is best for the wolves, and he sets an example, so the wolves rarely bark.If you see a male alpha who is constantly barking, bullying, or attacking someone below him, it means that you are not dealing with a real alpha male, or one that is insecure.It does not have the loyalty and trust of the group, and its insecurities and expressed fears bring a crisis to the entire group.

Humans treat dogs like children. Dogs are actually domesticated from wolves. They obey Alpha’s memory and it has become their instinct. The talking dog only pays attention to him, that is, it does not regard the owner as an alpha at all, and it sends out a signal that you cannot control it at all.

The first thing to do when training a dog is to let the dog know who controls its necessities of survival - food. Among the wolves, alpha always eats food first, then beta, gamma, even if doing so will make the owner and dog eat first. It is difficult to adapt, and you have to do that. If the dog shows aggressive behavior during the dog training process, the dog must either be trained by a professional, or be killed with a shotgun. Otherwise, the owner will not know that he fell asleep that day, and it will Will not bite off the owner's throat.

The efficiency of wolves comes from their level, and Alpha, Beta, and Gamma all have their own tasks.The lowest level is Omega, the so-called defeated dog. Omega is the last to eat food in the pack, and it is the doormat in the pack, but it plays an important role in the cohesion of the wolf pack.

Alphas have many challengers, otherwise a restless Alpha would not always attack other members and consolidate its position, not to mention that the old Alpha is gone and there will be a new Alpha.But the loss of an omega in a wolf pack leads to a long period of mourning, where the whole pack stops hunting and just lies there, looking miserable, until a new omega comes along.

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

Usually the lone wolf wandering alone is the scariest, it may even challenge the alpha of the original wolf pack, any idiot who is overconfident messes with it may be downgraded to become an omega.Or the lone wolf itself is very weak, and it just wants to find a place to settle down. In any case, losing Omega will destabilize the whole group. After all, wolves are different from other species, and the roles in the group are assigned 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, are not leaders, or become Alpha's gifted, he's a good locksmith, but he struggles managing members who don't respect him.

Naturally generated alphas are sometimes on the fringes, they are so far from being in the right place, and sometimes they have to watch the organization lead to failure by unsuitable alphas.

The witchcraft scare brought new opportunities to former Governor Andros, who had not gone after being ousted by the people of Massachusetts, and it was found that the loathed Andros was a better protector of Maine than the incompetent local government that drove him out, in Under the Provisional Government, New England lost peace, order, and security.

Philip English was the first suspect the sheriffs could not find, a businessman with a keen sense of smell who spent a month in hiding outside before being caught, accused by Suzanne Sheldon, who said at the time that Philip English visits her by the light of the new moon with book and knife, threatening to kill his worst enemy, the new Governor Phipps.

During the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War between England and France, Henry ordered all French soldiers to be released, no matter what their status was, but their release was conditional. If the British won the decisive battle tomorrow, they would continue to do so. His captives, if the British lost, the French would be completely free.

Doing so can save resources and free up the British to take care of these captives.

The second is to let the French know that they may survive if they surrender. The British did not kill these captives to avoid future troubles. Even peasants can pay the ransom like the nobles without dying.

The French agreed happily, but the British didn't sleep well all night, worrying that the released prisoners would repent, and because of the unlucky weather, the rain kept falling, and it was impossible to dry clothes, let alone lie down. On a bed of dryness.

The only thing they can do is to take out the rusty armor and put it in the sand to polish it. The British are absolutely outnumbered, and the French still have thousands of heavy cavalry.

It seemed that Henry had no chance of winning, but Henry chose a forest to form a formation to avoid the charge of cavalry and infantry. More importantly, this battlefield had just been plowed by farmers, and people planted winter wheat on it.

This proves that these soils are not the finer sandy soils of the French vineyards, but the thick clay of the Somme, which becomes muddy after heavy rains, and cavalry in heavy armor will get stuck in it and cannot escape. At this time, those "iron cans" ’ would be the target of the English longbowmen.

Five of the judges who expelled Andros later became judges in witchcraft cases.Slander was rampant in New England before 5, when a woman was given twenty lashes for calling another woman a witch, and when the counterclaims came people were too busy shutting up and keeping silent.Francis Nurse had won libel and slander suits, though he did not take any judicial action in 1692.

In its place is Cotton Mather's admonition "If a neighbor of a chosen saint is guilty, so is the saint."

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

Getting wind of it, as Elizabeth Cary had done, and going to Salem to prove her innocence, seemed like the only solution for a helpless woman.

But it would be wrong to do that. Compared with the brain-intensive thing of interrogation, the sheriff with the arrest warrant craves this kind of "hunting" feeling.

"Superstar" said to the parishioners in his sermon, "God Almighty gave the king to protect our government, and the devil tried to prevent the government from standing. The red-clad king worshiping gang invaded New England and savagely exploited the local people. and their leaders broke into the colony's house of worship, cooperated with the French, and bribed the Indians, one of whom swore that Andros intended to give the colony to the heathen enemies, and he summoned additional British soldiers, and conspired from Boston set out to overturn every town in New England."

There are many kinds of silver coins issued by Caesar, which can be roughly divided into two categories, one is military currency and the other is ordinary currency.The military currency is generally produced by the military currency factory. On the eve of Caesar's forced crossing of the Rubicon River and Pompey's decisive battle, Caesar issued a silver coin. The front is an elephant stepping on a snake, which means that power will defeat evil. Caesar's name.On the back are sacrificial wine spoons, guns, tall hats and flails, symbolizing his unshakable position as the high priest of the god of love.

Some people may refuse to accept leaflets, but no one will refuse to accept money. This military salary can be understood as a small advertisement for political propaganda, and it is used to boost morale.

There are also commanders who will give the soldiers a good meal and say something to boost morale during the dinner. After all, it is possible that this meal will be the last supper, but for the soldiers, no matter what cakes the commander draws, they are not contained in their stomachs. really.

Although John Conrad pinched the 17-year-old in his dying words, it was Ann Putnam Sr. who actually accused him, even though Conrad helped round up the first few suspects in the first place.

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

She named 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 all kinds of abnormalities are common. With the explanations in place, it appears that Ann and Ann of the Putnams are about to replace Rebecca and her sisters as the new female alphas.

Male alphas in wolf packs are not always leaders, they die young, female alphas are older, they are as experienced as the old grandmothers in the pack.

The older the elephant, the longer the tusks. After the poachers kill the grandmother, the safety of the elephant herd will be threatened, and the elephant herd will fall into long-term mourning if she loses her.

Some elephants will remember that kind of hatred, and they will go on a rampage when they see humans. Elephants will not only trample snakes to death, but people will also trample to death.

The feud is passed down from generation to generation. Thomas Putnam asked his nephew to sue Rebecca Nass perhaps not because of any leeway, but to pass this hatred on to the next generation. His reporting proves that he also has a share .

It was hard to get out of the muddy water, and it was impossible for John Conrad to leave when he got tired of the girls.

Curse Daniel Wilkins with witchcraft, John Conrad is sure to go to the gallows, but she may not have imagined that since then it has changed from a civil case to a criminal case, and outsiders can write petitions beyond reasonable doubt The book was written, and this also gave Francis Nurse a chance to fight back.

The accused John Conrad would of course run away, except that the former sheriff was caught after only a week on the run, while Philip English ran for a month.

If you have to compare the length of wandering time, Conrad lost again. What kind of position would a person like him be in the wolf pack?

(End of this chapter)