Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1755 The Queen of Hell (26)

  The news of Massachusetts could not reach England, but it could still reach New York. The Anglicans felt a little funny about this. Unexpectedly, two years ago, Cotton Mather said that Satan was deliberately planning to overthrow the colony occupied by the Puritans. Witch hunting did reduce the population of Massachusetts. Many people fled New England with their families and settled in other places. According to a New York newspaper report, more than one hundred suspects were imprisoned, most of whom were members of the church. One pastor died in jail, so did the daughter of another pastor, and another pastor’s wife was accused of being a witch. , A total of more than 700 people are involved.

  The message is obviously distorted, but it is understandable at the speed of traffic and information flow at the time. People were shocked by this. Although the former Governor Ingersos hated him, but he did not let the population go into exile. The performance of the new government made people feel that those who opposed him seemed very problematic. And the fifty-three-year-old Nassar Neil Thorntonstall was one of them, and he spent 15 days in jail for this.

  Thornton Stoll is a native of Ipswich, the grandson of an early Gulf colonial leader, and a resident judge in Massachusetts. He worked with Inchris Mather in lobbying for New England and was a very popular militia captain who served on the Maine border.

He left the courtroom the day after Bridget Bishop’s execution of the hang. Soon after that, he began to rumors that his ghost was wrong. According to the Gospel of Luke, "If it is not compatible with **** and his work, then Is hostile to him". Before this, Cotton Mather was already nervous and rumors would say when the devil would occupy his body and pretend to be him.

  The eight pastors who met at the Harvard Library discussed this issue. It is not valid, but there are always people in the world who like to spread scandals and provoke discord. In the end, the arrest warrant for Thornton Stoll was issued. An Andover's sheriff hesitated to execute it. He was dubious about the crime committed by the judge, which caused the sheriff himself to go to jail.

Samuel Willard helped Philip Inglis escape and participated in organizing the fast for John Alden, which also caused him trouble, but for him, the pastor who is as famous as Ingersos Mather, in The court did not dare to do anything to him without definite evidence.

A witch hunt due to boring pastime has turned into torture at this moment. Judges spend their time on daily witchcraft interrogations, and postpone other less urgent things. Fatigue is everywhere from top to bottom. Only when it is “harvest” can one feel a little joy. George Corwin is the nephew of Judge Corwin. He has the right to empty those homes after the convict is convicted.

He not only sold the Proctor’s cattle, but also ransacked the Jacobs’s riverside property, even including the golden wedding ring in the hands of Margaret’s mother. Margaret couldn’t help it. Begging to be back.

Although the Ingrishy couple escaped safely, their mansion was not spared. Law Enforcer Corwin opened the door of his house, looted him unscrupulously, and then let them in and looted them. Furniture, household items, portraits were all Nothing left. After an old peasant woman was hanged in September, an assistant sheriff rode to her home in Andover town center and took the cattle, grain and hay from the family. When her son tried to protect these properties, the assistant sheriff told him that he could talk to Herrick to avoid the sale of the remaining properties. In that conversation, Herrick kindly got him "redeemed" the property. Opportunity, but they were asked to pay 10 pounds, which was finalized at 6 pounds after negotiation, as long as the bribe could be cashed in that month.

  The fence is crumbling, the crops are left unattended, the orchard is lack of care, the firewood has been exhausted, and everything is depressed.

  Civilians live in fear, families are fragmented, and bandits dressed as Indians or French are raging in Massachusetts.

  Situation like this makes people feel frustrated.

  The judges are actually not good in this matter. They can neither accept bribes nor "empty" houses like sheriffs, even without a salary.

  The first thing they want to do is to empty the wizards, restore order in Massachusetts, solve the witchcraft problem once and for all, and then solve the problems such as the French and the Indians.

   Stoughton told the jury that as long as there is an intent to perform witchcraft is enough to convict, this has led to more women being tried and more people hanged. People seem to be plunged into darkness, and hurt each other in the darkness. If it is a dark tunnel, then it has at least an end. But at this moment, people can’t see the light. The only light is the light that the pastors said standing on the pulpit. The sermons that once made people feel weak to listen to are now also heard by many people. People discern the devil based on what the pastors said. , Angels, ghosts, those spirit bodies that live in the invisible world, and believe in them.

  This sounds silly, but when people use science to explain the haunting phenomenon, don’t they also apply their known knowledge and make some specious explanations to make themselves and the audience feel that it sounds reasonable?

  Order is fragile. The universe is full of disorder. It is not so easy to find order in the chaotic and disordered state. Man creates gods and throws all the problems that he can't solve to it. It is also a process of exploration for people to understand it, just like every time they take a little wealth from the safe, they will be crushed to death by Jinshan if they know too much.

  Anything is too late, even for knowledge and bravery. The scholasticists discuss how many angels can stand on the tip of the needle and cannot solve the problem of the spread of the Black Death. People who are too brave will be brave.

   Giles Corey has always boasted that he has never been afraid of anyone in his life, and even refused to say "God and our country".

  Judge Stoughton warned him that if he does not repent, he will suffer the medieval peineforteetdure (peineforteetdure), which means that stones or pieces of lead are piled up on the suspect and continue to stack until the suspect begs for mercy or dies.

  This kind of punishment has been raised, but it has never been used in New England. The last time it was used to threaten a prisoner was in 1638. It was a woman accused of murdering a three-year-old child. She finally chose to hang.

   Although Giles Corey has similarities with Philip Inglisch, they are not the same person. At a critical moment, he may not be able to make the same correct judgments as the young man.

  If he can be as soft as Barred, or if he and other husbands are so clear with the accused wife, then he will not be involved.

He and John Proctor are neighbors. The two accused each other about the issue of wood. Later, they shook hands and drank together. Years later Proctor accused Giles Corey in the plaintiff's bench in order to get away. He lit his roof with the hand of a demon, but he did not expect to become the first man convicted of witchcraft, and he was also hanged.

  Proctor wrote his will before he died, and Giles Corey also wrote his will. He left the farm to his two sons-in-law, although they had accused him of cursing the orchard with no results.

Regardless of whether they were because of greed or to save their lives, in short, they let Corey's daughters come in without being involved. After writing the will, he had nothing to worry about. His wife Martha was expelled by the church and will be hanged soon, like What's so terrible about an old bachelor like him?

  He has no intention to plead guilty, nor does he intend to cater to the judge. He has appeared in court several times without accusing anyone. He knows that anyone who steps into the court will suffer property damage even if he does not die.

After the threats were fruitless, Stoughton sentenced Giles to death. He was the first person in New England to be sentenced to this kind of punishment. The day of execution was September 17, because that kind of punishment was too cruel. It is held in public, but in an uninhabited field.

  Cory took off his shoes and clothes and lay almost naked on the shady ground, with his arms outstretched like a Vitruvian man.

  The wheat should be ripe in that season, but it was left in the field because there was no harvest. The wind made a rustling sound.

  The golden ears of corn and the blue sky should be beautiful together, until the guard’s face blocked his sight.

   "What else do you want to say?" the guard asked.

  The stubborn old man looked at the sheriff Kewen who was holding a cane not far away.

   "Let's do it." After Corey said, looking at the sky again, the guard placed a wooden board on his chest, and then piled stones on the wooden board.

It was nothing at the beginning. As the stones became more and more difficult to breathe, the onlookers gathered around the wheat field where no one passed by, including Corey’s friend, a wealthy but fierce Nan. Captain Target, he was born in Salem and served as an executive committee. Now he can't do anything. His brother-in-law is also on the run because of his sister's involvement.

   "surrender." His friend said painfully, "accuse Martha, and don't do it right with the judge!"

   Giles Corey ignored him, or said he couldn’t speak anymore.

  But if you do it again, he will still be so stubborn.

Many people cannot understand. Although Giles Corey has a bad reputation, has been married three times, and is 70 years old, he cannot find any kind of woman as a wealthy farmer. He has to marry Martha Corey. The woman with a "stain" in it.

  But if you do it again, he will still be so stubborn.

  The painful torture lasted for a while, maybe from noon to evening, Giles Corey finally died, his tongue stuck out of his mouth, and the Sheriff Cowin stuffed it back with his cane.

  When Giles Corey was a young man 43 years ago, his first appearance in court was because he stole wheat, tobacco, bacon and other items from the sheriff’s house.

On September 19th, George Corwin came forward to confiscate Giles’ property. One of his son-in-law agreed to pay a huge fine, which prevented Corwin from continuing to confiscate the property and redeemed Giles Corrie’s burying in a rock pile Corpse inside.

On September 22, Martha Corey came to Hanging Mountain. The sky was a bit gloomy and the weather was a bit sultry. There were 7 other people who went with her that day. This time it was no longer just a car of men or a car of women. It is mixed.

  When the ox cart pulled them forward slowly, one of the wheels got stuck and it took a while for people to let it move on.

   "The devil stopped it!" the girls explained.

It’s hard to say how many people paid attention to their boring explanations. The road outside the town was already rugged and the car was overloaded. In addition to the "Gospel Woman" Martha Corey, there was also the "Prophet" Wardwell. He is an old man who looks for people and loves to talk nonsense, and there is also Mary Eddies, she is Rebecca's sister, and her husband, children and friends have come to say goodbye to her.

  The professional executioner who executed them was a professional executioner. He covered the faces of the wizards with a mask, and then pushed them off the gallows one by one.

  Gravity accelerates death. Before they feel the pain, their brain loses consciousness due to lack of oxygen, but maybe they can still hear the sound.

   "Look at these eight traitors from hell." The fat Pastor Noyce mocked the dead bodies hanging from the gallows and said, "What a sad thing."

Martha Corey was still standing on the ladder and praying before she died. When Wardwell began to speak to the crowd, the smoke from the executioner's pipe floated to his face like a cloud, making Wardwell who was talking began. Coughing violently, his accusers sneered and said that the devil interrupted him.

  Smoking is a bad habit, maybe Martha Corey persuaded the stubborn old man to smoke less.

  He heard it, but never did so, so that every night when Martha closed her eyes, he would smell the smoke on Giles and fall asleep.

  The only thing she worries about before "going to sleep" may be her mixed son, who is still a child, where will he go in the future?

  According to the law, his mother is a free man, so he is also free.

  He can run, run through the fields full of golden wheat in the autumn harvest, and then go wherever he wants to go.

  May God bless you, child.

  One day you will meet someone like Giles Corey who is willing to accept you and let you into his house.

  He may not be as rich as Corey, but wealth is not the only benchmark to measure a person's good or bad, let alone judge a person's kindness by clothes alone.

  (End of this chapter)