Chapter 1740 Queen of Hell (11)

Why do children swallow needles?

41-year-old Elizabeth Proctor is the second wife of 60-year-old John Proctor. John's first wife gave birth to 5 children, and Elizabeth gave birth to 6 children, plus the child she was carrying in her belly.

Well, there are a total of 12 children in total. She usually also studies and teaches the maid how to read. All of these require a quiet environment, but when 11 children gather together, it is inevitable that the older ones will bully the younger ones, or they will bully the younger ones.

Ignore one or two, and they'll swallow the needle when Elizabeth isn't looking.

Swallowing needles is not a new thing in the 21st century, but humans have X-rays and can see what's going on inside a child's body. People in the 17th century didn't have this technology. When a child swallows a needle, surgery is basically the only way to go.

The conditions at that time were very dangerous.

The children invaded Elizabeth's personal time and disturbed her peace. Of course she would become moody. Molly was often tortured and cried by the twins. Of course the pastor would promote the benefits of having more children, but the problem was that they were not the ones taking care of the children.

Elizabeth had to take care of the food and daily life of so many children, and it was too busy for Elizabeth alone.

Not all servants are loyal and honest. The number 13 is very unlucky. Originally Jesus only had 12 disciples, but Judas betrayed him for 30 silver coins. People chose one of Jesus' disciples to replace Judas as an apostle.

points, that’s 13 disciples.

Sometimes the master is ungrateful to his servants no matter how kind he is to them. On the contrary, he may let a wolf into the house. Servants and children know many secrets in the house, and the way for a servant to be loyal to his master is to reveal those secrets.

In his sermons, the pastor would encourage the master to be considerate of his servants and that the servants would be willing to contribute. The actual situation was that the male servant wanted to steal the master's gold, silver and jewelry and escape, while the maid was pregnant with the master's child. Hearing other people's bad things is harmful to the master.

It's a kind of entertainment, but when they listen to it, they probably don't know that their own property is also being stolen by the maid, and it becomes entertainment in other people's homes.

Over the decades, Massachusetts had developed a reputation for misdeeds, with London accusing settlers of independent tendencies and wigged aristocrats enacting cumbersome trade regulations to annoy merchants.

Queen Mary once ordered the residents of New England to set up a complete postal system. Some people may die of smallpox in 4 days, but it takes 15 months for the news of their death to reach Europe. Most New Englanders are not aware of this.

In the meantime, their new Governor Phipps has taken office.

Yes, the long-legged British guy did not say that he would send a British noble to serve as governor, but he did not say that he would not appoint a governor. Phipps is a local pioneer in New England. This strong, rough, muscular, and imposing knight is very good at it.

Even old sailors who have been around for a long time will admire his ability to curse. At the same time, he is also a brave soldier. In 1689, he rushed from London to Boston to deliver the news of the Glorious Revolution. While on the ship, he was thinking about how to remove him from office.

The much-criticized Royal Governor Andros only found out after he landed that the work had been completed six weeks ago, and the Bostonians launched an uprising to drive the Governor away.

In 1690, he led a land and sea expedition to Canada to fight the French. He planned to completely drive the French out of North America and monopolize the fur trade and fisheries in Maine.

It was this costly expedition that made Inglis Mather plan to join forces with him. However, when Phips received the Governor's charter in December 1691, he still could not tell whether the charter was genuine or not, because according to the old

Charter, his position needs to be elected through election, and his lieutenant governor is sixty-year-old William Stoughton, who has worked for New England for twenty years and has experienced four generations of regime changes.

Over the past few decades, New England has shown religious tolerance for everyone. Anyone with a high income can vote regardless of whether he is a member of the church. If the new governor is a New England Puritan, the province will definitely ignore the royal family.

orders, at the same time various advisers to the royal family were lobbying for people who had common interests with them. Phipps was accepted by all parties largely because he did not belong to any party and had no political experience, which made many immigrants feel

They had been deceived. The merchants would rather return to the previous state of autonomy than be ruled by a reckless man, while the Orthodox Christians wanted to restore the original charter.

These high-income groups with voting rights are very disgusted with Phipps because he often broke the law in the past and got away with it by taking bribes. Phipps is a role somewhat similar to the godfather of the Mafia. At this time, Phipps

In addition to dealing with dissatisfaction, Sri Lanka also had to deal with Indians and French privateers on the border.

When Rosen's pamphlet about the supernatural attacks in Salem spread throughout Boston, he was busy dealing with urgent national affairs, and all he did was delegate to this fantasy-filled "mystery."

Several judges were appointed to fill the vacancies left by Andros's people. One of them was Samuel Sewell. He and the investigator entrusted by the Lieutenant Governor, 69-year-old Thomas Danforth and several

Officers traveled to Salem as reinforcements.

Because of the arrival of these prestigious people, the venue of the trial was also moved from the village chapel to the more exquisite and bright chapel in the town. Here, the pastor Samuel Paris was demoted to the clerk of the court, responsible for the first trial of male suspects.

This is how human judgment is held.

The defendant at the time was Giles Corey, and John Proctor stood on the witness stand. In this witchcraft accusation, the logic of the accusation often trumped the alibi. I once said in a philosophy class at Harvard,

Metaphysical thinking is also called intellectual thinking. Its core is formal logic, which was first proposed by Aristotle. It consists of the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle and the law of identity. Simply put, in the same thinking process, an idea or concept

The reflected object is fixed, and the two judgments of a question must be one true and one false. For example, in the ship of Theseus, if all the wood on the ship is replaced, is it still the same ship?

Aristotle believed that although the materials of the ship had changed, the design of the ship had not changed, so the ship remained the same ship.

The shortcoming of this kind of intellectual thinking is that it uses some abstract thinking codes to view events from an isolated and static point of view. Thomas Danforth dropped the witchcraft accusation in 1659, and he also worked as an administrator and administrator at Harvard for decades.

He worked in finance, also worked in the legislative body, participated in the coup against Andros, and guarded the lost charter of the colony.

With this authority, Judge Samuel Sewell stepped aside. The first thing he did after arriving in Salem was to organize a chorus, hoping to use this method to revive Salem's dead morale. As a result

John Indian was attacked in the sermon following this cantata.

Danforth first interrogated Sarah Croesus. When faced with John Indian's accusation, she shouted "You are a big liar!" Most of the subsequent confessions came from the mouths of girls, including Paris's niece.

, Abigail Williams said that on March 31, which was a public fast day, another group of people ate and drank behind the Parris house. To those people, what they ate was "holy communion."

This kind of Holy Communion is of course not the Holy Communion received from the church priest, but a kind of red bread eaten at the devil's gathering. Sarah Croyce and Sarah Good served as deacons, Rosen said before

, the stronger the belief, the easier it is to be attacked, so in order to gain more power, 40 witches participated in the blood-drinking ceremony.

At this time, Sarah Croyce asked for water, and then she passed out on her seat. After she was helped away, the pregnant elderly Elizabeth Proctor went on trial.

Danforth is also the father of twelve children. He knows how to communicate with his children. Abigail was confused by his questions and fell into a trance for a long time.

At this point John Indian began to testify that the scantily clad Elizabeth Proctor had strangled him.

This is a characteristic of male accusations of witches, which are inevitably related to exposure and temptation. Just when Danforth asked John Indian twice if he was sure of her identity, Abigail and little Ann Putnam wanted to beat Elizabeth together.

They scratched and scratched in the courtroom until they were stopped by the magistrate, and when Abigail's hand brushed Elizabeth's headscarf, Abigail began to cry out in pain.

Someone checked her hands, and her fingers were burned, just like the last time she took charcoal out of the fire and threw it around without getting burned.

Then the girls fell to the ground, and they pointed to the chapel beams, where stood the ghost of Elizabeth Proctor, the wizard's wife, and soon they warned that John Proctor would throw hand-warmers.

Tube of Joshua Pope Floating.

At that moment, Pope's feet really floated off the ground.

"How do you explain it?" Danforth asked John Proctor, who was congratulating himself on having struck first, accusing Giles Corey of using the devil's hand to set him on fire during the previous day's trial.

roof, and now Proctor himself was on trial.

Before he could answer, Abigail pointed at the two older women and said, "Proctor is going to attack you."

The two old women were startled, and then began to really twist in pain. Abigail then cried and said, "You see, the devil will deceive you."

Danforth warned John Proctor: "The children will see what you are going to do before the women get hurt. You'd better change your ways. Satan is just playing with you."

"I...I didn't!" John Proctor explained to people in vain, "I love my wife. She gave birth to children for me and helped me take care of the tavern and 700 acres of farm. Why should I hurt her?"

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No one listened to him.

"Believe me," he said to Pope's husband, "if only Reverend Parris will allow me to spend a few minutes with that Indian, I will find the devil out of him!"

Still no one believed him, except maybe one person, that was Edward Bishop, the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first arrested witch. He took the Indian back to Salem Village in the afternoon, and John started convulsing on the way.

, and even bit Bishop's shoulder.

Bishop whipped him with a tree branch, and John quickly returned to normal.

A spanking could restore the convulsions to normal, but who but John Proctor would spank the weak girls?

In addition to Bridget Bishop, Mary Ellen was also the first to be suspected. The presiding judge on the day of her trial was Hassan. She was originally a victim and now an accused witch, just like her master John.

Proctor, that girl holds all the parts in herself.

The pressure of the interrogation made her collapse. She couldn't tell which side she was on. She just cried and apologized repeatedly. She didn't know who she was apologizing to. In the end, the priest and the judge took her away and spent the night in jail.

, she put all the blame on John Proctor during the interrogation the next day.

He threatens her to sign a book, and if she doesn't sign, he won't save her the next time she falls into water or convulses in the fire. If she exposes them, she will be torn to pieces, and Proctor's private

They insulted her by saying that she was beautiful, so of course some people believed what they said, so Proctor became the first wizard to be accused of witchcraft in Salem before Giles Corey.

During the interrogation of Bridget Bishop, Hassan asked, "You deny that you are a witch, so how do you know that you are not a witch?"

Bishop didn't respond, and Hassan asked again, "If you don't know what a witch is, how do you know you're not a witch?"

Bridget was angry and cursed, "I am a witch, and I will let you know my power right away!"

"Are you threatening me?" Hassan asked.

Bishop didn't answer.

"I will not forget what you just said." Hassan looked at the secretary. "Please make sure it is recorded. Do you know that others have confessed?"

"I don't know," Bishop said tiredly.

"Hey, you told a big lie." Two men said angrily, "We have already told her most of what happened."

Bishop did not say like Martha Corey, "Since you want to hang me, you still find so many reasons." Maybe she just wanted to go back to the prison and stay alone for a while, away from this world full of threats, screams, and...

A "court of reason" for quarreling, scolding, ranting, and insults.

Galileo was also tried by the Inquisition because he used Copernican logic.

Scholasticism always uses logical debates, which is contrary to the integration of modern physical theory and practice to solve problems. However, the motion of celestial bodies cannot be easily tested like "two iron balls hit the ground at the same time", and people are not Atlas, who can

Lift an earth.

The debate between Ptolemy and Copernicus is like two judgments on the same issue, one true and one false. However, no matter how they argue, they are the discoverers and they are not the ones who designed this system.

A fundamental law of Copernican physics and philosophy is that no observer has a special position.

The geocentric theory means that the earth does not move and other planets move around it, including the sun. In fact, the solar system is also moving. The heliocentric theory also establishes a motionless celestial body, but the sun is not the observer, but the celestial body being observed.

Galileo thought he could cover up the past with mathematician theory, but the authority of the church soon discovered it.

Just because they don't support the heliocentric theory doesn't mean they don't understand. The world is already in chaos because of the Protestants. If the order of the celestial bodies is also in chaos, where else will it be?

Hassan had reason to dislike Burroughs, not only because Burroughs was his ex-brother-in-law, but also because such a heroic pioneer was a priest. The people responsible for producing evidence and interrogating in the Inquisition were all priests, not Harvard graduates.

Judge.

In addition, Burroughs was also an eyewitness when the state government withdrew the militia from Casco in 1690. It was because of this deployment that Casco was burned to the ground. If Burroughs is prosecuted, the judges can blame him for the failure.

On your head, absolve yourself of the blame.

There was once a question. The king, the bishop and the rich man asked the soldiers to kill the other two, and then gave the soldiers everything they wanted. Who did the soldiers listen to?

Now there is such a coin in front of the soldier. On the front is the emperor with a laurel wreath, and on the back is a cross. It is currently rotating continuously. Who will he think is the one that faces up at the end?
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