Chapter 1727 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Seventy-Two)

When immigrants from the New World first came to this land, they may have seen a bushy and undeveloped world, but this also meant that this land was brand new, with shoals of sturgeons and salmon in the river, and pioneering

The wood cut down can be used to build a house.

For these Europeans who came from afar, the Indians did not drive them away before they had time to establish a foothold, but allocated a piece of land for them to live in.

The New World immigrants and the Indians coexisted peacefully for a period of time, and the Indians would cooperate with the immigrants to drive away the more powerful tribes in the north. However, the immigrants eventually had an affair with the Indians because they could not stand the temptation of more fertile and vast land.

Land disputes. The trigger of King Philip's War was actually just a small incident. The immigrants' livestock ate the corn grown by the Indians, which ignited the long-standing dissatisfaction of the indigenous people.

In 1675, an Indian who converted to Christianity reported to the immigrants in advance that the tribe would launch an attack. The immigration authorities used this as an excuse to arrest 30,000 Panoag people. With only one witness, the immigration authorities accused "Philip

The king's cronies killed the Indian who told the story.

According to British law at the time, two witnesses were required to convict murder. The court decided to hang three Indians, including Tobias, a close relative of King Philip.

He witnessed his father's tragic death. Just when he was about to die, the noose suddenly broke, preventing him from dying. When he suffered a mental breakdown, he changed his confession and confessed to his father's murder. In this way, the court was able to collect 2

Personal ID.

During the war, New Englanders and Indians plundered each other. When the Indians became slaves of immigrants, the children of immigrants also became slaves of Indians.

The Puritans at that time were keen on enforcing justice and felt that those people lived a miserable life. In fact, those people got along quite well with the Indians, and some children kidnapped by the Indians did not even want to come back.

Voltaire said that doubt is unpleasant, but belief is absurd.

After winning the war against King Philip, the new settlers were still unhappy. They hoped that life could return to normal, but the distant British government could not help them in this regard.

These New Englanders who separated from their mother country still maintained many English habits, such as drinking tea and hunting witches, as if this was a "normal life."

What you think is normal is actually very abnormal. In the concept of ancient people, there is no concept of "children". After children can express their thoughts normally at the age of 7, they enter social life. They have to learn

To survive and grow, rather than to maintain a pure soul, the harsh environment at that time would make it easy for children to die young, plague, disease, famine, and the poor would increase their survival rate through multiple births.

Child abduction is not necessarily through violence, it may also be through coaxing, such as Snow White eating the poisoned apple from her stepmother. A pure soul is worth protecting, but there are also demons who wear pure clothes and perform many evil deeds in the world.

The next target of Abigail's accusation, Rebecca Nurse, had no interest in the outside pastor's family, but had something to do with the locals. Neither she nor her husband, Francis Nurse, were the first immigrants. They came from Boston.

They purchased a 300-acre farm from the pastor, married for fifty years, gave birth to eight children, and raised an orphaned Quaker boy. The family prospered and the couple's marriage was unbreakable, and all the children survived, and

There is no hostility towards each other.

Francis Nurse himself was not only a carpenter, but also served as a juror and peace officer, and the couple established a foothold in Salem through their own efforts.

The wealthy Nass was widely respected in Salem, and he was close to the Sibley family and most of the community. Such a family would not look like a fringe beggar like Sarah Good.

People, or "outsiders" like Tituba.

But in addition to these roles, Nass also held property appraisals, surveyed boundaries and arbitrated land disputes. He also served as a member of the parish council. Nass also withheld Paris' salary.

Every pastor will have a deacon. A larger parish will have more than one deacon. In a place like Salem, one is enough.

Rosen's era was during the war, so Rosen chose militia captains as his deacons instead of rich people and prominent families. The first constitution of the United States of America was not created until a hundred years after the Salem incident.

At that time, the U.S. Constitution stipulated that the power to train militia was reserved to the states. In other words, as long as the majority of soldiers and wealth guards were men, then the probability of men becoming victims of the "witch hunting" sport was much smaller than that of women, and the war would never begin.

In a sense, it can speed up unity and bury the seeds of doubt among women.

They like to do that, to show their nobility by condemning others. A moral woman is lovable. Who would use Mary Magdalene as an idol?

The Bible does not mention whether she was a prostitute. The first person to say so was Pope Gregory the Great. He said in his Easter sermon that "Mary Magdalene and the prostitute are the same woman."

Misunderstand.

Worship and worship the Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the representative of all women.

However, Protestants do not worship Mary, and Puritans are a branch of Protestantism, and they also do not worship Mary. Although Protestants and Catholics have different doctrines, they are still churches. What happened in the Old World before

The story is of great “reference” significance.

The Putnam family's maid, Moxie Lewis, was not a local. She was born in Custer, which was very close to the forefront of the war between the Indians and the New Englanders. It was a prosperous city smaller than Salem.

Village.

It was not a coveted job. When George Berners arrived in the frontier town, the local council could not even provide him with a house as a residence, and the former pastor's house had been destroyed by the Indians.

However, the town gave Burroughs two hundred acres of fertile land, which was surrounded by rocky coast on three sides and afforded a magnificent hazy sea view. Burroughs built a house on the headland.

That is actually meaningless, because once the government troops are defeated, the two hundred acres of land promised to Burroughs will no longer belong to him, and in addition to the Indians, there are also French people in this area.

During the war, it was still under the jurisdiction of New England when Berners moved there, and the locals traded religious freedom for military protection. This meant that once the soldiers fell, the town would be razed by the Indians.

Flatland was occupied by the French. Whether he, a Protestant pastor, was scalped or beheaded depended on the mood of the occupiers at the time.

It is a gamble to leave one's life and death to others to judge. Burroughs's grandfather was the rectory of Suffolk County, England, and his parents immigrated to Maryland. This small family often traveled around, and those who life forced

Wanderers are different. Burroughs's father did it voluntarily. He was a member of the merchant navy and liked to travel around. He visited every coast.

George Burroughs was the only son of the family. He received a good education. Both he and Paris were students at Harvard. He graduated a year later than Bailey, the first pastor of Salem. When Paris came to Cambury

He was about to leave at the strange moment. He was an upright and tenacious man. When the Indians attacked Custer again in 1676, he managed to lead 10 men, 6 women and 16 children to a fertile island.

Among them was Moses Lewis.

They lived on the island living on fish and berries until it became safer for a while before evacuating.

In fact, Burroughs didn't have to do this. He could have returned to England with his parents, studied in the real Cambridge, and served in the British Parliament after graduation. But he chose another path. He led these people who lost their homes and returned to England.

The people he rescued wandered in the wilderness and arrived in Salisbury, relying on his temporary pastor position and meager salary to make ends meet, until the Salem villagers found him and arranged for him to stay at Putnam's house.

This is how Moses Lewis and his family followed him to Salem.

George Burroughs was a true hero. He left Salem in 1683 because Custer, his former parish, invited him back again. At that time, it was larger than the village of Salem.

The Custer people loved and respected him, unlike the Salem people, so Burroughs readily accepted it, but he did not expect that the town would be besieged again six years later due to King William's War. This time he

Instead of taking away civilians, he took up arms with the soldiers and participated in the war.

An old Boston militiaman praised the unexpected combatant, but the attack left 15-year-old Lewis an orphan, Burroughs also lost his wife, and Salem accepted many refugees, including Lewis.

moved into Burroughs' home.

Burroughs did not return home to Salem. He retreated along the coast to Wells, seventy-five miles north of Boston, which was considered the border area. Everything east of Wells was destroyed. In the summer of 1691,

There was a protracted siege in Wells, which lasted until the end of an unusually cold winter in 1692.

That winter, half of Yorktown's residents were killed or carried away, and that's exactly what the villagers of Parris and Salem heard after the winter snow melted.

While staying at Putnam's house, Burroughs's first wife had a very fierce dispute, which even reached the point of requiring arbitration by a judge.

Burroughs wanted his wife to keep a secret, or wanted to keep it a secret. For this reason, he insisted that her sign an agreement promising not to reveal the secret. This request sounded particularly sinful, and Hassan was very interested in it, but Burroughs was very interested in it.

Les was determined not to reveal a word.

As for Burroughs's second wife, Sarah Luke, now floating around in her shroud, she was also the widow of Hassan's brother, whose father lived in Salem and was about to serve on the grand jury.

long.

Think about it, who will the townspeople of Salem choose to stay, an unlikable priest whose family members are possessed by demons or a priest who can use a musket and is enthusiastic about helping others?

Maybe Salem is a hell for Parris now, but at least he has a place to live, not to mention the unwell Putnam family who don't pay him.

After leaving Salem, where will Parris go? Going to the front like Burroughs?

How did Paris know that God would bless him and bullets would not hit him?

If Paris died, who would take care of his wife and three children?

Perhaps Parris would have doubts that Burroughs would not return to Salem.

Again, leaving your life and death to others to judge is a kind of gamble. Those little girls who seem very proud now, if no one sympathizes with their plight, then no one will believe their accusations.

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Women are like this. They like to use tears to gain sympathy from others. They always put themselves in the position of the victim.

Is the victim really innocent?

Anyone who holds the theory that the victim is guilty will be condemned and asked what kind of mentality is this?

This is the basis on which the girls of Salem are invincible and can accuse "witches" arbitrarily, even if Rebecca Nurse knows at a glance that she is not worthy of suspicion.

Did Abigail really see Rebecca's ghost, or was she taught to say that?

Anyway, Paris can't escape the relationship. If someone wants to teach him, it's an adult teaching a little girl. Could it be that it's a 12-year-old girl?

Some people said they saw Putnam teaching the maid and daughter how to talk, but they just saw it and left no evidence. Just like the girls said they saw a ghost, they saw it, but you can't see it.

This is the scary thing about witchcraft accusations. It is difficult to prove it and it mainly relies on witness. But how do you know that the witness will not lie for some purpose?

A similar case occurred in Sweden in 1668. At first, the witch hunt was an accusation against a boy. Later, more and more children were involved, as well as their parents. As long as the court was willing to listen, they could keep making up stories and be busy.

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Who would doubt a pure child? He is really an evil person, but some cute children can indeed do "naughty things" that adults cannot imagine. They are protected by the status of minors, so one after another "

"Old woman" is on the gallows
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