Chapter 1722 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Sixty-Seven)

On July 5, 1687, Isaac Newton published the theory of universal gravitation in "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy". However, this theory was not immediately accepted by people, and he was still promoting it in 1692.

Contrary to what most people think, science is used to get rid of "superstition." In 1692, Newton wrote in a reply to the British pastor Bentley, "When I wrote about the system of the universe, I paid special attention to it.

Principles sufficient to induce thoughtful men to believe in God, and nothing can give me greater joy than to find my writings useful for that purpose."

In other words, universal gravitation is a mathematical principle that Newton thought could make people believe in the existence of God. If not, his theory would have been banned by the church just like Copernicus' heliocentric theory.

The Salem Trials took place during the reigns of William III and Mary II, around the same time that the Statute of Secrecy was enacted. At that time, a delegation of wizards tried to get the king to pass a law prohibiting witchcraft, but they did not know that

For some reason the kings did not agree.

If they don't believe in witchcraft, then they are just like what the title page of Hammer of Witches says, not believing in witchcraft is the greatest heresy.

Witchcraft and religion are in a symbiotic relationship. Without mysterious things, there is no faith. However, because of the cruelty and madness of the persecution of witchcraft, some rational people have begun to doubt the authenticity of witchcraft. Is there really a witchcraft or is someone using this excuse?

To cause harm to the world.

Witches became a topic of discussion among the elite, scholars and learned priests.

While the European continent is busy discussing these, witch hunting is still going on in the Americas. When a hunter inevitably needs hunting dogs, next to Orion in the sky are the constellations of Canis, Canis Minor, and Canis Major. They follow the instructions of the hunter to hunt the surrounding witches.

Rabbits, bears and other animals.

Among them, the Canes Canes star is called the Heart of Charles. It is said that it was very bright when Charles II returned to London from France. Charles II's father, Charles the Headless, had his head chopped off by Lord Protector Cromwell. Charles I may have been

The only king in British history whose head was beheaded. His exaggerated wigs and extravagance angered the Puritans. The theater is a place that can bring entertainment, but it can also attract all kinds of resentment and jealousy, especially when people are seen dressing up.

Actors who show off their talents. The English longbowmen were once the main fighting force of the United Kingdom. However, a qualified archer is not born and requires a lot of training. According to England's "Charitable Utilization Act", it is mentioned that a qualified archer must be aged 7 to 7 years old.

Bows and arrows are provided to 17-year-olds because many parents and men of the family have a legal obligation to provide weapons but are unable to do so due to poverty.

Although becoming a longbow soldier may inevitably face death, they also have the opportunity to be promoted due to their military exploits and become generals and nobles. In terms of the characters that soldiers hate the most, apart from the luxurious royal family, they are those who have done nothing serious but are famous and wealthy.

The actor has been hired.

When they sacrificed their lives for the country, no one remembered their names. On the contrary, the names of the actors became household names. Screenwriters would use the deeds of the soldiers to write scripts, and the actors only needed to show off and perform on stage to get applause and

Cheers.

Lord Protector Cromwell closed many theaters after he came to power. The education he received since childhood came from the Puritans, and he himself supported the Puritans.

However, he did not hold power for long, and many people could not tolerate the Puritan lifestyle. After Cromwell's fall, he welcomed Charles II back from exile in France.

Charles II was also known as the Happy King. He changed the Puritan lifestyle during Cromwell's rule, reopened the theater, and vigorously developed comedy. As for the New World, because most of the local people were Puritans,

By 1692, there was still no theater. At that time, Boston was full of rumors of witches and witchcraft. The first residents there immigrated from England, many of them from the most possessed counties. If there were anyone in the town

When a well-intentioned child sees a convulsing child, a well-intentioned person will not remind the parents that the child is having an epileptic seizure. Instead, they will tell the parents that a witch lives nearby.

The land of New England is very suitable for the growth of witchcraft. In this remote wilderness, there are not only New Englanders, but also French and Indians. Regarding Indian civilization, most people’s understanding is limited to scalps and their colorful feathers.

Decoration, only a small number of people engaged in the fur business or hunting for a living would have contact with the Indians.

These people also live in isolation and rarely go to church to worship, but no one dares to mess with them.

Force is very necessary in that place. Unfortunately, pulling a long bow requires arm strength, which is difficult for women to do. Perhaps it was not until the advent of the firearms age that women had the power to truly defend themselves.

Unless she is a real witch.

Sarah Goode had a chance to escape. She had been wandering around and leaving Salem was just a change of place to live. However, a woman's maternal nature made her fall back, and then she was hunted by the "hunters" who were waiting for her.

Caught.

In ancient Rome, if a child was not strong enough, the mother would leave it in a foundling dump. Infanticide was not a sin.

But later, infanticide became a felony for women and they would be sentenced by the judge to be exiled to the New World. How would these women survive there?

There are some "disreputable" women in every town, such as witches who tell people's fortunes and women who don't go out to work but always have money to spend. They wear better clothes than the laundry workers who are worthy and work with their hands.

The woman is even more beautiful.

Boston is an international city, which is much more open than Salem. Men in Salem don't need to look for those frivolous women like men in Boston.

They took in many war orphans as their maids, not to mention slaves, but there was still a tainted woman in the town. Her name was Martha Corey, and she lived on the southwest edge of Salem.

She does not skip church services like Gude and Osman, but she is very quiet every time she goes to church services and tries not to talk to others because she brings her children with her every time she attends church services.

There is nothing strange about this in itself. Many people take their children to church, but this boy is a bit special because he is of mixed race.

When Columbus discovered the New World, he believed that the earth was round. He thought that he could change the direction and reach India, which is full of spices and gold, without going around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. These early explorers mistook the North American natives for Indians.

Then call them Indians.

In the early 17th century, the British established the East India Company. At that time, the British had a deeper understanding of the real "India", including the Indian caste system.

At the beginning of the founding of the New World, this caste system had been embedded in the collective subconscious of the New World people.

No matter how those "desperate to death" slave owners later promoted freedom and equality, it was only after Newton's gravity became popular in the 18th century that nature was deified and replaced God as the master of the world. The "natural rights" in "natural rights"

"Talent" refers to the power that natural people have with birth. So what is the definition of a person?

Slaves were objectified by him. In the 1882 law, a woman's status and value were no more than a piece of furniture. Thanks to this law, the court granted "justice to the bank and mercy to the wife."

People who are also in the midst of oppression and hell will develop empathy. Sometimes British women will give birth to children who look different from those of their own race.

In light of this, a 1662 Virginia law declared that whether a child born in this country was a slave or a free person depended solely on the child's mother.

A child born to a slave mother is still a slave, even if his father is a slave owner.

A child born to a slave-owning mother is a free person, even if his father is a slave.

This is different from the caste system. The caste system is patrilineal. Even if the child's mother is from a lower caste, the child she gives birth to will still inherit the father's upper caste. This is also a way for the lower caste to escape from the original caste. Generally speaking, she will grow taller.

Very beautiful, so the upper castes in India generally look more beautiful than the lower castes.

Children born from the union of European women and African men are ugly in the eyes of others, and Mary Corey, who gave birth to this child, is also dishonorable.

After three witches were taken away, and a Boston woman and a white-haired man escaped capture, who could be more suspicious than Martha Corey?

If she hadn't been tempted by the devil, how could she have given birth to that half-blood?

Ever since the Boston jailer put the three Salem suspects in jail, little Ann Putnam has been strangled by a new ghost, that is, Goode's five-year-old daughter Dorothy, but the child has disappeared. People

I used hunting dogs to search all the caves and places where I could stay, but no one could find her, as if she had already left.

Because the witches were not completely arrested, Paris decided to separate the possessed girls in his family. The blonde Abigail Wilms was more deeply affected. In contrast, Betty's symptoms were much milder, so the priest separated himself.

The daughter was sent to the home of court clerk Stephen Sewell so that the priests could pray day and night and continue to exorcise Abigail.

The priests were obviously unavailable, so the townspeople still had to solve Little Ann Putnam's problem themselves, so Edward Putnam, the church deacon and John Putnam's brother, and Ezekiel Cheever, the court reporter and stable boy,

Together we visited Martha Corey on the morning of March 12th.

Martha smiled and politely let them into the house. Before they could sit down, Martha solemnly said, "I know why you are here. You come here just to say that I am a witch."

The two guests were speechless.

"I'm not," Martha said, "but I can't stop people from talking about me."

Edward Putnam then said, "But Ann gave your name."

"Then did she mention what I was wearing?" Martha asked.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Edward asked in surprise.

"Your niece, did she ever mention what I was wearing?" said Martha.

Edward and Ezekiel looked at each other and said, "A 12-year-old girl may not be able to see clearly, let alone you blinded her eyes."

"She could also say that I went to see her at night, so she couldn't see me clearly. In short, she just won't tell you what I was wearing." Martha smiled and said, "I have no reason to worry about Ann's accusation. I

She is a devout woman who has long disclosed her faith in Christ and always listens to God’s words with joy. I am a ‘gospel woman’.”

"I heard that you prevented your husband from going to trial," Ezekiel said.

"I don't think there's anything interesting about that," Martha said coldly. "What good would come from such a trial? I've heard that girls identify ghosts by their clothes, and that's a dangerous sign."

"I feel like you don't take the accusation seriously," Edward threatened, using the same tone Hassan used against the "witches" in court.

"As the pastor said, the angry devil has come among us. I am not surprised that Tituba, Goode and Osborne are regarded as witches. They are lazy and brainless. I am with them.

It’s different!” Martha touched the cross on her chest and said, “My faith is indestructible, God will bear witness for me, let the judges and pastors open their eyes.”

The two visitors returned angrily. They did not catch anything about Martha. Later, they passed by Thomas Putnam's house. Ann regained her composure until that night, Ann's convulsions broke out again and lasted until the second day.

sky.

This time she regained consciousness and said her ghost was a pale, serious woman who had occupied Ann's grandmother's old seat in the church pew.

There used to be many bison running across the North American continent, but they were hunted to near extinction by humans.

Men sometimes hunt them not for their meat or skins, but for fun.

It is difficult for modern wizards to understand why there are purifiers who have magical talents but harm their own kind. Wizard historians believe that at least two of the so-called judges in Salem at that time were known purgers.

It was also due to the influence of the Salem incident that the Magical Congress of the United States was established in 1693 and began to judge those purgers who betrayed their kind.

However, some notorious Purifiers evaded capture and disappeared among the No-Majs after international arrest warrants were issued.

If the children born have magical talents, they will be abandoned, leaving only offspring without magical talents. They will pass on a firm belief to their descendants: magicians are real, and wizards should be eliminated once discovered.

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However, Muggles have the "Charitable Utilization Act". These abandoned children will be taken in and raised. When they grow up, will they want to know why they were abandoned?

What will they think when they know what their parents have done?

If he is a kind of "criminal evidence", why should he be born?

If Venus, Athena and Hera are competing to let the Trojan prince choose who to give the golden apple to, then the priest Paris is holding a rotten apple, and whoever catches it will be dishonored. It is estimated that no one will

The "goddess" wants it.

Maybe Samuel Parris didn't listen to the Salem church group and the pastors and agreed to leave Boston and become a pastor in that "poor village". He would have other opportunities in the city.

So don't listen too much to the one-sided words of some people and rashly go to places you don't understand, especially young masters from wealthy families, because you never know what kind of hell is waiting for you.

Otherwise, as Samuel Parris has taught you, you will be dragged into that quagmire and never get out, even if it seems like there is no other choice in the situation Parris faced at the time.
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