Harry Potter Morning Light

Magic blossoms only in the souls of a few.

This ability is related to the soul rather than the blood. No matter how "hard-blooded" the pure-bloods are to protect it, there will still be Muggle-born wizards.

Witch hunts are a long time ago for 20th century kids, and their neighbors and family members don't look like witch hunt Muggles, so why continue to abide by the old International Statute of Secrecy?

On July 19, 1692, the atmosphere was suffocating. The sheriff of Salem, the handsome Herrick and his deputy, put five female prisoners with their hands bound into a wooden cart, protected by armed guards. Slowly through the center of Salem, past churches, Hassan's house, Stephen Sewell's house, Corwin's house, and the wide-eyed, whispering crowd.

The five women escorted in the car were ragged and pale. The youngest of the five was Sarah Goode. Her five-year-old daughter, Dorothy, was still being held in a Boston jail. She was pregnant with a child at the time of her trial in March, which she later gave birth to and died in prison.

The oldest were Rebecca Nurse and Suzanne Martin, a widow from Amesbury, both of seventy-one, and Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wildes, who had been They were supposed to be executed together with Bridget Bishop in May, but after the efforts of Francis Nurse, their execution was delayed. A total of 7 people, they are the earliest victims of the Salem witch trials.

The five women in the car, unknown before their arrest, became fellow inmates after spending some of the most tragic weeks of their lives in an adjacent cell.

"What a pity." Sarah Goode looked at Rebecca Nass with resentment in her eyes and said, "If you can get out, those little sluts will die."

Rebecca pursed her lips and looked at the crowd silently.

When many neighbors and folks heard that Nas's death sentence was suspended, many neighbors and folks breathed a sigh of relief, but there were also strong protests, and the most violent protest was the person who accused Rebecca.

The accusation of witchcraft is not only a death-and-death ending. There are also defendants who countersued for defamation and whipped the plaintiff dozens of times. It’s just that Mary Edith almost caused the death of Mosey Lewis after she was released briefly on May 18. The pardon concerning Rebecca was cancelled.

Reverend Parris was at Lewis' bedside, and he had brought Abigail Wilms, and she and Ann Putnam Jr. had seen Mary Edith and her gang choking Lewis's neck. On the evening of May 20th, the ghost of Edith warned Lewis that she would not survive the midnight, and Lewis was so frightened that he cried, so the magistrate of the court rushed to Topsfield to rehabilitate Mary. Edith was arrested, and as soon as she was shackled and sent to the Boston Jail, Lewis recovered.

To put it simply, the group of girls whose average age is less than 16 years old wants these old women to die, and they can feel at ease after these old women die.

You can't say that these little girls are bloodthirsty, you can only say that it is mixed with the feud between the Putnam family and the Nass family, the factional struggle of the Salem pastor, and the political issue of the appointment of the governor. This is no longer between village women. abused.

As early as 32 years ago, when the Putnam family appeared on that disputed land wielding axes, if the men did not deal with it calmly, it would be enough to form a war between lords on the Old Continent.

Philip English could leave everything and run away. Others couldn't, and people who got married took care of a lot. They ended their lives of adventure and aggression and began to settle down. This is the organizational structure that human beings invented family-family-country, and depended on it to operate for thousands of years.

If the Putnam family moved the women of the Nas family, they would have to face the revenge of the Nas family men. The Spanish throne war has nothing to do with the common people. The civilians in Italy have not suffered because of this. Soldiers on both sides are burning peasants' houses in order to prevent the other side from requisitioning grain. What else can they do but hide in the Alps?

What did the onlookers see as the wooden cart creaked toward a place called Hanging Hill on the outskirts of Salem?

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

More than 1,000 years ago, some people also faced this situation, but they were asked by the judge whether you are the Son of God, and he answered yes, so he was sentenced to death and wanted to crucify him.

The Romans only maintained local law and order. This was a way for them to fight abroad. As long as they recognized as an ally of the Romans, they would be protected by Rome.

It wasn't their business, but someone still couldn't help putting on the crown of thorns for him for fun. At that time, that person was carrying the cross that was going to crucify himself, and climbed up the bumpy hillside.

The same carriage carrying five people was also struggling to climb along the rugged mountain road. It stopped twice on the way. The second stop was next to a rock formation. There was no road ahead. A few yards of unkempt road led to the top of the hill, where they saw a gallows with five nooses attached to it, and a hangman in a black pointed hat standing on the platform, and beside him stood a priest in a white robe, his hands Holding a Bible in his pocket, he was looking at them with pity.

Somebody put hoods on the women so that they could hide their eyes, but then they had to stumble a little when they climbed the gallows ladder. what believers say.

When they were all standing together, the executioner tied the noose around their necks, and Father Noyes read the scriptures for them. After reading, he said to the "witches", "You are witches, and you have done very evil things. , what else do you want to confess now?"

"You're a liar!!" Sarah Goode hissed. "I'm a witch, you're a wizard! If you take my life, God will make you drink blood!"

The crowd of onlookers in the audience were scared away by her terrible curse. At this time, the executioner pulled the handle, and the wooden boards under the prisoners' feet were removed. The human cervical spine is very fragile. It is not so much that this kind of hanging is hanged, it is better to say that the cervical spine is fractured or dislocated, causing the brain to lose blood supply. 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 and does not return, the brain will immediately lack oxygen, and the blood circulation is still going on.

This kind of self-hanging can sometimes be rescued in time. Few of the hangings carried out by professionals can survive. In that hot summer, the corpses of the witches were displayed in the blue sky for a while, and they were quickly put down. , and was thrown into a pile of rocks on the mountain and buried.

They were still there at first and then disappeared, but no one thinks they are alive.

Whereas the first Bishop execution put the torture and charges on hold for a while, the second did the opposite, with people encountering ghosts in the street and watching them fly by.

On July 20, the day after the execution, the pastor's wife, Elizabeth Paris, had her first convulsions.

It was a Sunday, and Pastor Parris went to preach. When he came back, he found his wife lying on the ground and convulsing like a niece. He immediately went to Hassan and Judge Corwin.

The previous group of witches were hanged, and a new group of witches came again. They confessed their depravity and confessed many sensational conspiracies. It took them three days to find a possible clue from many conspiracies. There was a woman named Ann Foster old, who claimed to have flown from Andover on a wooden pole, and she showed her mark—a c written backwards.

The judge immediately sent Reverend Noyce to Andover to investigate.

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

Among them was Richard, a strong and burly eighteen-year-old young man. He was very strong and eye-catching in the crowd, but he twisted a handkerchief and said with shame, "Sometimes the devil disturbs my mind, let I couldn't help but hurt the pastor's wife."

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

"It must be my mother's fault," said the young man, "not only did she fly to Salem on the same pole as Ann Foster, she turned me into a wizard, and even though she was in prison she still Incarnate as a cat, she came to visit me recently, and 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 made me." Richard Carrier begged.

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

"My brother, he took part in the demon baptism that his mother arranged for him." Richard said. "They dipped him in the river at our house and the Foster's house. Satan baptisms are held in rivers and ponds. We have wizards here. custom."

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

"About 80 people," Richard replied.

Noyston asked for a while, "Do you know that your village only has 600 people?"

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