Chapter 1721 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Sixty-Six)

On the early morning of March 2, 1692, the chapel was full of people, who were not usually so diligent when they came to listen to Paris' sermon.

The order in the chapel was obviously disordered. The villagers sat on the black wooden benches and whispered to each other, so much so that Sheriff Herrick had to shout "keep quiet".

Both Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good were marginalized people in this town, but compared to Good, who was obviously down and out, Osborne was unable to attend church services because of illness.

Osborne's first husband designated Thomas and John Putnam as his heirs, but these two men misappropriated the property in the will, and Osborne had to start a long-term relationship with the famous Salem family.

Ten years of litigation.

After the court session, Hassan asked her, "The guard said he heard you talking alone last night. What were you talking about?"

Osborne looked at Hassan calmly: "I heard a suspicious sound."

"Is the devil talking to you?" Hassan asked.

"I don't know what devil you are talking about." Osborne replied numbly, "I heard a voice telling me not to participate in religious gatherings."

"Why did you succumb to the devil and never go to church again?" Hassan asked one after another.

"She hasn't been to a church in 14 months," Osborne's Irish husband told the crowd.

There were whispers among the crowd again.

"Keep quiet!" Hassan said, slapping the table with his hand, and the villagers immediately fell silent.

"I had a dream," whispered Osborne. "An Indian, maybe, and he pulled me by the hair and dragged me to the front door, and I, like every New England woman, would rather die than die.

I am willing to be captured alive by him."

"What happened next?" Hassan asked.

"I woke up, and I sat here," Osborne said, "waiting for your trial, Judge."

"Do you think the Indians cursed you?" Hassan asked.

"Who else would it be?" Osborne asked.

"I know who it is!" said 12-year-old Ann Putnam, one of the four murdered girls. "The pastor had an Indian slave named Tituba who did it, and her husband, who was also involved.

Yes, I saw her in and out of many houses that week when it rained heavily, and she even planned to kill me."

Tituba's husband John was the one who baked the witch cake according to Mary Sibley's instructions, but he was a man, not a witch, so he was not arraigned, but Tituba was arrested.

The clergy of Massachusetts all agreed that the only way to deal with the devil was prayer, and in earlier times, people believed that fasting could protect against witchcraft.

Witches are generally marginalized people who behave strangely and behave abnormally, like Goode and Osborne, but Tituba is not like this. She loves Betty very much, is proficient in the Bible, and prays with the priest's girls.

They ate together, slept together at night, and sang hymns in front of the Parris fireplace. She didn't look like a suspect in any way.

But Tituba was still brought to the trial. As soon as Hassan saw her, he felt that she was guilty, and then asked, "Why did you hurt the child?"

Tituba replied in broken English, "I won't hurt them, at all."

"Who is hurting those girls?" Hassan asked again.

"As far as I know, it must be the devil!" Tituba said. "Just when I was cleaning the shed for the pastor, a tall man with white hair in a dark woolen coat came in. He ordered me to hurt the children. He ordered me to hurt the children."

There were four accomplices, Goode and Osborne, and two Bostonians, and he threatened to kill me if I didn't torture the girl."

"Then has this man appeared in other disguises?" Hassan asked.

"And there was a yellow bird, and two red cats, and a big black cat, and a black dog, and a pig, and he said if I would do him service I would have the yellow bird, Sarah Good

She also had one in her hand, and there was a translucent cat beside her. When she cast spells on the girls, she blocked my ears so that I couldn’t hear her scriptures. The man in the woolen coat

, she came four times in total, and he threatened to twist my head if I mentioned him. Gude and Osman pretended to be ghosts and asked me to work for them. They asked me to go to the doctor and twist his head.

The maid also sent me to Putnam’s house and asked me to kill Ann Putnam..."

Indians are good at telling stories. Tituba told every detail of the story very carefully and clearly. In addition, she also mentioned the wolf that once followed Elizabeth Hubbard, which was transformed by Sarah Good.

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She didn't know the name of the white-haired man, but she knew that the Boston woman who came with him had a white lining. She followed Hassan's leading questions and answered.

In short, she was very cooperative and emphasized that she loved Betty and Abigail very much. She obeyed her master but was a little afraid. The pastor was more caring than intimidating towards the children, and he was more intimidating than caring towards the servants.

Her interrogation lasted more than five times as long as Goode's. Finally, Tituba finished her testimony just as the girls began to convulse again.

"Do you see who is torturing these children now?" Hassan asked.

"It's Sarah Good," Tituba said with certainty.

The girls shouted in agreement, but Tituba could not speak a word at this time. After a while, she said, "I'm blind, I can't see anything."

In this way, the trial ended, and the last prayer was supposed to be held. This time Tituba protested.

In the evening, both Tituba and Osborne were imprisoned in Salem's jail. After the judge left, the townspeople began to hold a meeting. It was originally supposed to be held at 1 o'clock, but it actually started very late. The Salem villagers

They also quarreled with the townspeople about their responsibilities.

The town seems to have regained its "quietness" again.

After a week of rain, the sky cleared again and a full moon appeared in the sky.

In order to celebrate that all the witches were caught, William Allen and John Hughes, the village laborers and barrel repairers, drank a little wine at Sibley's house to discuss the matter. On their way back, they heard something unusual.

sound.

Just when they followed the sound and approached, they found a strange and rare monster dancing. It sensed their approach and dissolved in the silver moonlight. At the same time, Elizabeth Hubbard was a guest at Griggs' house.

She began to vomit, then said to Samuel Sibley, "Sarah Good is standing on the table next to you!"

This really shocked Samuel, because Sarah Good was now being held on her farm by Sheriff Joseph Herrick, waiting to be escorted to Ibswich Prison the next day.

Samuel picked up his cane and hit the table next to him as Elizabeth asked. His cane actually hit a ghostly female beggar.

Later, Samuel went to find the Sheriff's farm, and the two of them went to the farmhouse where Goode was imprisoned, but she actually ran away.

The two went out to search together, and Sarah disappeared into the darkness for a while. At this time, Samuel suggested that she might have gone to find the child she had with the devil, so the two returned to the town and caught Sarah halfway.

La Goude, who was holding her three-month-old child in her arms.

The motherly love in a woman's nature made Sarah lose the chance to escape, and she was captured back to the farm. Early the next morning, when Herrick's wife took care of her, she found that Sarah's arms were covered with bruises from the elbow to the wrist.

It was scratched, but there were no marks on it the night before. The villagers had no doubt that Sarah had hurt herself when she broke free from the shackles in order to escape. Instead, they thought it was caused by Samuel's crutches.

Sarah was sent to Ibswich Prison that day, but the town was haunted by ghosts. It was William Allen and John Hughes, the laborers and barrel repairmen who saw the monster last night. One of them saw it.

The spirit of Sarah Goode saw a fat gray cat squatting beside the bed, its eyes shining with a dazzling light.

Both of them were frightened. When Ann Putnam woke up from her sleep early the next morning, she found Goode's five-year-old daughter Dorothy appearing in her room and strangling her neck with her hands.

, ordering her to sign a contract with the devil.

She was frightened and ran away from her room screaming. Then she woke up again, this time she was alone in the room.

At the same time, Hassan was still perfecting the "confession" with Tituba so that it could be read out in the Boston court later. Goode later laughed at him because he actually believed what a eloquent slave said.

A week after their arrest, Goode, Osborne, Tituba, and Goode's three-month-old child were all put on a carriage to Boston, a journey that took a full day to complete.

The Massachusetts prison lacked chains, but it was also evidence of the witches' superpowers, so it was removed from the wall and carried to the car.

Is the matter over? Of course not, this is the beginning. Hassan is still going to find a white-haired man, a Boston woman, and Goode's daughter Dorothy. The daughters of witches are usually witches.

After this incident, Paris's home was almost destroyed, and his reputation was in disgrace. There was actually a demonic invasion in the pastor's home, presumably because he was not pious enough.

Obviously, not everyone who graduates from Harvard has a bright future.

Before the accident, the villagers were discussing firing him. I think they begged him to come to this place to be a pastor.

Perhaps if he had known this, he should not have brought firewood when signing the contract, but he was not allowed to be fired. He is 39 years old and has experienced these things. Who would want him?

Anger took control of the pastor, and it may have started when the daughters wanted their father to stay at home more, so they acted out a play together.

Of course, nothing can be verified, this is just a guess, and this crisis is far from over.

"it's not finished yet."

The priest drank the wine in the bottle, put the empty bottle on the table in anger, and then left the table.
Chapter completed!