Chapter 1746 Queen of Hell (17)

In the Middle Ages, wealthy knights would wear armor when fighting.

However, for those who wear armor, rust is inevitable.

The weather on the battlefield is unpredictable. No one knows whether it will rain in the field, and a thick woolen cloak cannot protect against such weather. Under normal circumstances, if the armor is put into a bucket of sand and polished and polished regularly,

Oil it and it won't rust.

But after strenuous exercise, the knight's helmet will still leave rust stains on his face, as if blood has soaked into the armor, even if he was just performing a military parade and not fighting.

According to wizard history, goblins launched a rebellion in 1612. In fact, goblins launched more than one rebellion, but the one in 1612 was particularly bloody and led to the wizards' council promulgating the "Code of Wand Use" 19 years after the rebellion, which no longer allowed wizards to give

Leprechaun holds magic wand.

So while the old problems were unresolved, new ones arose.

Wizarding historians believe that the dwarf Abigail Wilmes saw in 1692 was most likely "Dead Fisheyes" who participated in the goblin rebellion 80 years ago and was responsible for the deaths of three witches.

Fishy Kooky. When the Salem incident occurred, the Magical Congress of the United States had not yet been established, and the Wizarding Council of England rarely governed the New World. The vacuum of power gave some dark wizards and troublemakers the opportunity to "carnival."

After the witch hunt began, the people being prosecuted fell into the paradox of "I am not a thief" and "You must prove that you are not".

When it comes to catching a thief and catching stolen goods, does it prove that you are not a thief if you don’t have the stolen goods? What if you destroy the evidence or dispose of the stolen goods?

In the summer of 1692, you definitely don’t want to appear in your neighbor’s dream, as many dirty past events were uncovered and made a big fuss about.

Rebecca Nurse's family, the Town of Topsfield, also suffered after witchcraft accusations were laid against her. The accusers were axe-wielding men who had appeared on her brother's land in the early years.

I once went to court over territorial disputes.

Fifty-three years ago, a careless pastor acted hastily and moved part of the land of Torsfield across the border of Salem. As a result, according to the calculation, part of the land southwest of Torsfield belonged to the north of Salem. Early pioneers

They have been cutting down trees, and while they have acquired large farms, log resources have become scarce. A New England family consumes 30 to 40 bundles of wood every year, equivalent to more than an acre of woods, and it is Pastor Parris who provides enough wood.

Agree to go to Salem and become a long-term pastor.

The Putnam family of Salem and the Townen family of Topsfield had long had a feud over log resources. Once, the forest guarded by a weak farmer in the Putnam family was cut down by the Topsfield people. This soon happened.

This caused a violent reaction from the Putnam family, and a group of people appeared on the land of the Townen family, wielding axes.

The Essex County Court heard the Putnams' complaints again and again, but the court sided with the Townes four times. As early as 1660, Salem and Torsfield fought a war.

The lawsuit arose out of a mare with a bright brown and black mane that belonged to Sarah Wilds' husband and was later found in the Putnam family's barn. So the Nass family

, the Towne family, the Estee family and the Wilds family, the four families united to fight the Putnam family in a lawsuit related to the mare.

There are three sisters in the Towne family, Rebecca and Mary, who married into the Nass, Addis and Hao families respectively.

Elizabeth Howe's husband was a blind farmer, the youngest of the three Townen sisters. He was 55 years old when he was charged. He was unable to take care of his own farm. As a virtuous woman, Howe's farm had always been managed and managed by Elizabeth.

The accusations against her are like a set of fairy tales. She made one brother-in-law's sow jump three feet high, poisoned another brother-in-law's cow with poisonous turnips, self-emptying containers, disappearing fences, killing people.

Apple with amnesia, etc. But her 94-year-old father-in-law said that she was always gentle enough to hold her husband's hand and take care of their six children.

The assistant pastor of Topsfield spontaneously accompanied Howe to see the 10-year-old girl who lived in the house and was said to have been raped by Elizabeth. The child convulsed for a while and never said anything bad about Elizabeth. Instead, the girl's brother was at the window upstairs.

Shouting, "Say that woman named Hao is a witch! Say it!"

Mary Esty is a warm and cheerful 58-year-old woman, the mother of seven children, who also lives in Topsfield. When she was imprisoned in prison, she was very enthusiastic and made friends with the cruel guards.

With the financial support from outside husbands, the three of them lived quite well, and Rebecca Nurse even became inmates with the Hopps mother and daughter.

Abigail Hopps first sent her parents to prison, and later herself was imprisoned. She was the one who claimed to have sold her soul to Satan and was no longer afraid. Later, she turned to John Wise.

The girl who admitted that her testimony was fabricated.

She was replaced by Susanna Sheldon, a girl with two previous convictions who had witnessed Indian atrocities in Maine and had just fled to Salem.

About the same day as Elizabeth Howe's trial, Sarah Wilds was arrested, and her accusers were the Hobbs family.

It was her son who went to arrest them. At that time, Abigail Hopps's eyes were full of hatred. When he accused her, he did not mention the devil's meeting, but mentioned the curse of hay and rope. And the invisible devil.

The judges were impressed by the hand comparisons, the flying pigs, the cursed hay and the haphazard recovery of the scythe, and the jury unanimously found the two women guilty.

Mary Walcott, the daughter of a militia captain, was the most accused, especially after Governor Phipps came to Salem.

Phipps was preparing for a new Maine expedition. He needed to order military supplies and return hundreds of militiamen to their posts. In his absence, these arrangements were in charge of Lieutenant Governor Stoughton.

Stoughton, like other educated people, disliked the semi-illiterate governor, and they even had a fight. In the early years, someone suggested that Stoughton lock up Phipps.

There was such a big fight, and foreigners also saw it. A well-known Dutch businessman once wrote to Incris Mather, expressing his concern that maybe God was punishing New England, but the so-called Satanic Contract was too

It's unreasonable. What's also incredible is that witches can actually do this to their victims from a distance. At the same time, the victims of the spell seem to have been deprived of their senses and unable to return to normal. If they weren't completely crazy, would they be?

Possibly demonic possession?

Not only Rebecca, but Elizabeth Howe also had witnesses willing to testify that she was a devout woman.

Phipps proposed to pardon Nurse at this time, not so much because he doubted the existence of witchcraft, but because he was under pressure, and there was no more conclusive evidence to prove that Rebecca was a witch.

Humans can learn a lot from wolves. To the male members of the family, the sweetness of the boy's face, his innocence, and his carefreeness are nothing compared to the talent of becoming the alpha of the wolf pack.

valuable.

There is an alpha female wolf and a male wolf who are responsible for the leadership of the wolf pack. Many people misunderstand the male alpha as the "king of the world" who is aggressive, aggressive, and bullies the weak. But zoologists will tell you that the real

Alpha males are fearless protectors.

Wolves almost never bark. Only dogs bark constantly. The alpha male wolf mainly shows a kind of peaceful self-confidence. He knows what is best for the wolves. He leads by example, so the wolves rarely bark. If you

If you see an alpha male barking, bullying or attacking individuals below him, it means that you are not meeting a real alpha male, or an insecure alpha. He does not receive the loyalty of the group.

and trust, its insecurities and revealed fears create a crisis for the entire group.

Humans will treat dogs like children. Dogs are actually domesticated from wolves. It has become their instinct to obey the memory of Alpha. If a person is walking the dog and finds that the dog is running rampant and does not care about the owner at all, or the owner needs to shout loudly

The talking dog only pays attention to him, that is, it does not regard its owner as an alpha at all, and it sends a signal that you cannot control it at all.

The first thing to do when training a dog is to let the dog know who controls its necessities for survival - food. Among wolves, Alpha always eats food first, followed by Beta and Gamma, even if doing so will make the owner and the dog lose control at first.

It’s hard to adapt, but you have to do that. If a dog behaves aggressively during dog training, the dog will either be trained by professionals, or it will be killed with a shotgun. Otherwise, the owner will have no idea that the dog will be sleeping soundly that day.

It will not bite the owner's throat.

The efficiency of the wolf pack comes from the level. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma all have their own tasks. The lowest level is Omega, which is the so-called loser. Omega is the last to eat food in the wolf pack and is the doormat of the group.

But it plays an important role in the cohesion of the wolf pack.

Alpha has many challengers, otherwise a restless Alpha will not always attack other members to consolidate its position. Moreover, after the old Alpha has gone, there will be a new Alpha. But if the wolf pack loses Omega, it will enter a long-term

In mourning, the entire wolf pack stopped hunting and just lay there, looking miserable, until a new Omega appeared.

No one wants to be at the bottom. Compared with the leader, Omega is the hardest to be easily replaced. A new Omega means that a group member must be demoted, or a new, foreign lone wolf will join.

Usually the lone wolf wandering alone is the most terrifying. It may even challenge the Alpha of the original wolf pack. Any overestimating idiot who messes with it may be downgraded and become an Omega. Or the lone wolf itself is very weak and it just

They just want to find a place to settle down. Losing Omega will cause the entire group to lose stability anyway. After all, wolves are different from other species. Roles in the group are allocated according to strength.

The greatest tragedy of mankind is that through systems such as hereditary and legal systems, some people who do not have natural talents are regarded as qualified to be assigned to the position of Alpha, such as Louis XVI. He is not a leader, or he is not a leader.

Alpha's talent is that he is a good locksmith, but he struggles to manage members who don't respect him.

Naturally occurring Alphas are sometimes on the fringes, far from their rightful place, and sometimes they have to watch the organization fail, led by unsuitable Alphas.

Former Governor Andros did not leave after being ousted by the people of Massachusetts. The witchcraft scare brought him new opportunities. People found that the hated Andros could protect Maine better than the incompetent local government that expelled him.

Under the Provisional Government, New England lost peace, order, and security.

Philip English was the first suspect that the sheriffs could not find. The businessman with a keen sense of smell hid for a month before he was caught. His accuser was Susanna Sheldon. At the time, she said Philip

English visited her under the light of the new moon with a book and a knife, threatening to kill his greatest enemy, the new Governor Phipps.

During the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, Henry ordered that all French soldiers be released, regardless of their status, but their release was conditional. If the British won the decisive battle tomorrow, they would continue to do so.

His prisoners, if the British lost, the French would gain complete freedom.

Doing so would save resources and free up the British's manpower to guard these prisoners.

The second is to let the French know that surrender can also lead to survival. The British did not kill these prisoners to avoid future troubles. Even the peasants can pay the ransom like the nobles and avoid death.

The French agreed happily, but the British didn't sleep well all night. They were worried that the released prisoners would regret it, and because of the unlucky weather, it rained constantly, making it impossible to dry their clothes, let alone lie down.

On a dry bed.

The only thing they could do was to take out the rusty armor and polish it in the sand. The British were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and the French still had thousands of heavy armored cavalry.

It seemed that Henry had no chance of winning, but Henry chose a forest to form a formation to avoid the charge of cavalry and infantry. More importantly, this battlefield happened to be plowed by farmers, and people planted winter wheat on it.

This proves that these soils are not the finer sandy soil in French vineyards, but the thick clay of the Somme River. After heavy rain, it will become very muddy, and cavalry wearing heavy armor will get stuck in it and have difficulty getting out. At this time, those "iron cans"

” would become a target for the English longbowmen.

Five of the judges who expelled Andros later became judges in witchcraft cases. Slander was prevalent in New England until 1692, when a woman was whipped twenty times for calling another woman a witch.

People are often too busy keeping their mouths shut when counterclaims come. Francis Nurse had won lawsuits for libel and slander, but he took no judicial action in 1692.

Instead, Cotton Mather admonished, "If a chosen saint's neighbor is guilty, the saint is also to blame."

Then we saw Giles Corey become the first male witch to be accused.

After hearing the news like Elizabeth Cary, it was not possible to go to Salem in order to prove her innocence. For a helpless woman, running away seemed to be the only solution.

But that would be a mistake. Rather than the mind-consuming task of interrogation, what those sheriffs with arrest warrants long for is this feeling of "hunting."
To be continued...