Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1748 Queen of Hell (19)

  Magic only blooms in the souls of a few people.

  This ability is related to the soul, not blood. No matter how hard the purebloods "try" to protect, Muggle wizards will eventually appear.

  Witch hunting has been a long time ago for children in the 20th century. Their neighbors and family members don’t look like Muggles in the witch hunting movement. Why continue to abide by the old-fashioned international secrecy laws?

On July 19, 1692, the atmosphere was suffocating. The Sheriff of Salem, handsome Herrick and his deputy escorted five female prisoners with their hands bound to a wooden cart, under the protection of armed guards. Slowly walked down through the center of Salem, past the church, Hassan's house, Stephen Sewell's house, Cowen's house, and the wide-eyed, whispering crowd.

  The five women escorted in the car were in ragged clothes and faceless. The youngest of the five was Sarah Good. Her five-year-old daughter Dorothy was still being held in a Boston prison. She was pregnant with a child during the interrogation in March and later gave birth and died in prison.

The oldest are Rebecca Nass and the widow Susanna Martin from Amesbury, both of whom are 71 years old, and the other two are Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wilds, they were originally They were supposed to be executed with Bridget Bishop in May, but after Francis Nas’s efforts, their death sentence was delayed. If you add Sarah Osborne who died of illness before and be together A total of 7 people, they are the first batch of victims in the Salem Witch Trial.

  The five women in the car were unfamiliar before they were arrested, but after spending the most tragic weeks of their lives in a nearby prison, they became inmates.

   "It's a pity." Sarah Goode, with spiteful eyes, looked at Rebecca Nath and said, "If you can get out, it will be those little **** who will die."

  Rebecca pursed her mouth, silently looking at the crowd.

  When many neighbors and villagers heard that Nas’s death sentence was suspended, many neighbors and villagers were relieved, but there were also strong protests. Among them, the most violent protest was the person who accused Rebecca.

The allegations of witchcraft are not only the end of life and death, but also the defendant counterclaimed defamation and whipped the plaintiff dozens of whips, but Mary Addis almost caused the death of Mosie Lewis after her brief release on May 18. The pardon for Rebecca was cancelled.

The priest Paris was by Lewis’s bed. He came with Abigail Wilmes. Both she and Ann Putnam saw Mary Edith and her comrades pinching Lewis’s. The neck, the latter almost suffocated because of breathing difficulties. In the evening of May 20th, the ghost of Edith warned Lewis that she would not survive midnight. Lewis was so scared that he cried, so the court executive rushed to Topsfield to retake Mary. Edith was arrested, and Lewis recovered as soon as she was shackled and put in the Boston jail.

  Simply put, those girls whose average age is only 16 years old want these old women to die, and they can feel at ease when these old women die.

You can't say that these little girls are bloodthirsty, you can only say that they are mixed with the old grudges of the Putnam family and the Nas family, the factional struggles of the Salem priests, and the political issue of the governor's appointment. This is no longer between village women. The verbal abuse.

  As early as 32 years ago, when the Putnam family wielded an axe and appeared on the disputed land, if the men did not calmly deal with it, placing it in the Old World would be enough to form a war between the lords.

  Philip Ingrisi can leave everything and run away, but others can't. People who get married take care of a lot. They will end their adventurous and radical life and begin to stabilize. This is how mankind invented the family-family-nation structure and relied on it to operate for thousands of years.

When the Putnam family moved the Nas family’s women, they had to face the Nas family’s men’s revenge. The Spanish throne war had nothing to do with civilians. The rich and powerful were not even qualified to watch the crown, but the participating parties and The civilians in Italy have not suffered because of this. In order to prevent the soldiers on both sides from burning the peasant’s houses, what else can they do besides hiding in the Alps?

  When the wooden car creaked towards the outskirts of Salem, the place called Hanging Mountain, what did the people watching on the road see?

  When Rebecca and the woman in the car looked at the crowd, what did they see?

  Some people faced this situation more than 1,000 years ago, but he was asked by the judge whether you were the son of God, and he answered yes, so he was sentenced to death and wanted to crucify him.

  The Romans only maintain local law and order. This is a way for them to fight abroad. As long as they admit to be an ally of the Romans, they will be protected by Rome. Correspondingly, when Rome is going to fight, allies must also provide funding.

  It was not their business, but someone could not help but put him on the crown of thorns for fun. At that time, that person was carrying a cross to crucify himself and climbed up the bumpy hillside.

Similarly, the five-person carriage was also struggling to climb along the rugged mountain road. It stopped twice in the middle, and the second time it stopped by the rock formation. There was no road ahead, and the five people had to get out of the car and finish the last. A few yards of messy road to the top of the mountain, where they saw the gallows, with five nooses tied to it, there was an executioner with a black pointed hat standing on the stage, and a priest in a white robe stood beside him, his hand Holding a Bible in it, he was looking at them with compassion.

Someone put hoods on the women so that they could cover their eyes, but they inevitably staggered when they climbed the ladder of the gallows. The priest on the stage reminded them to be careful of the steps, just like he usually reminds them at the entrance of the chapel What the believers said.

When they stood together, the executioner tied the noose around their necks, and Father Noyce recited the scriptures for them. After reading the scriptures, he said to the "witches", "You are witches, and you have done very evil things." , What else do you want to confess now?"

  "You are a liar!!" Sarah Goode hissed, "If you say that I am a witch, it is better to say that you are also a wizard! If you take my life, God will let you drink blood!"

The crowd of onlookers was frightened by her terrible curse and retreated. At this time, the executioner pulled the handle, and the wooden planks under the prisoners’ feet were removed. This process was very fast. People would pull downwards due to their own weight, and the noose would move towards. Pulling up, the human cervical spine is very fragile. This type of hanging is not so much hanging, it is more of a fracture or dislocation of the cervical spine, causing the brain to lose blood supply, and the prisoner will lose consciousness in an instant, and basically feel no pain.

  However, this requires a very professional operation. The process of ordinary people hanging themselves at home is slow and painful. If the airway is tightened, the brain will immediately become hypoxic, and the blood circulation is still going on.

This kind of self-hanging can sometimes be rescued in time. The hangings executed by professionals rarely survived. In that hot summer, the bodies of the witches were shown to the public for a while under the blue sky and white sun, and they were soon put down. , And then was thrown into a pile of rocks on the mountain and buried.

  They were indeed still there at first, but later disappeared, but no one thought they were resurrected.

  The first time Bishop’s death sentence suspended the torture and accusation for a while, the second time the death sentence was the opposite. People met ghosts in the street and watched them fly by.

  On July 20, the second day of the execution, the priest’s wife Elizabeth Paris had her first convulsions.

  It was a Sunday. Pastor Paris went to preach. When he returned, he found his wife was lying on the ground and convulsed like his niece. He immediately went to Judge Hassan and Corwin.

The last group of witches were hanged, and a new group of witches came again. They confessed to their depravity and confessed to many sensational conspiracies. It took them three days to find a possible clue from the numerous conspiracies. There is a woman named Old Ann Foster. She claimed to have flown over from Andover on a wooden pole. At the same time, she also showed her mark-a reversed c.

  The judge immediately sent Pastor Noyce to Andover to investigate.

  In the extreme cold weather of 1692, Andover was the worst affected. When the investigation team arrived in Andover, many people accused the witches of causing the climate anomaly.

Among them was Richard, a strong and burly 18-year-old man. He was very strong and stood out among the crowd, but he wrung a handkerchief and said with shame, "Sometimes the devil will disturb my mind, let I couldn't help but hurt the pastor's wife."

   "How can you work for the devil?" Noyce asked.

"It must be my mother's fault." The young man said. "Not only did she fly to Salem on a pole with Ann Foster, she also turned me into a wizard, even though she was in prison. She turned into a cat and came to visit me recently. She told me that the devil had promised her that she would be the queen of hell."

   "What's her name?" Noyce asked.

   "Martha Carrier, please, I don't want to be a wizard, she forced me." Richard Carrier pleaded.

   "Do you have any other accomplices?" Noyce asked.

"My brother, he participated in the demon baptism arranged for him by his mother." Richard said, "They immersed him in the river of our house and Foster's house, and held the baptism of Satan in the river and pond. It is our wizard here. Custom."

   "About how many people will attend?" Noyce asked.

   "About 80 people." Richard replied.

  Noyston asked, "Do you know that there are only 600 people in your village?"

   "Yes, I know that our village is controlled by Satan. Look at the weather here." The young man said painfully, "God, please save us."

  (End of this chapter)