Chapter 60: The Past

This kind of thing started slowly about a month ago, and then it intensified under the nose of Emperor Keyes.

In fact, Emperor Keyes's attitude towards these fart people is that he has never treated them as human beings. His attitude towards the common people was similar to that of the Norslands towards the Delmans, treating them like lambs to the slaughter.

With the acquiescence of Emperor Keyes, religious fanatics of the Order began to arrest, interrogate, and execute unarmed strangers and women, who they said were whoevers, on the charge of arresting heretics and magicians and threatening the Empire. For a while, people were panicking, but more and more people became religious fanatics, and these people liked violence. At the same time, it also diverts hatred within the Empire about the bad news in Pulin Harbor.

Because of this, people can vent the violence in their hearts, and for a while there are people everywhere who report it, and some people even report their sister or sister.

Those who worship nature and love peace only dare to communicate and huddle together in secret to protect themselves.

For a time, a witch hunt began to break out in the entire empire from the capital city of Kailandil. The bulletin boards in the city are plastered with bounty lists for all kinds of wanted people.

The armed forces of the Order began to go out into the neighborhood, searching people from house to house. At this time, it seemed easy to frame a woman as a "witch" or a "witch", and there was a reward for the whistleblower and a guarantee of confidentiality and immunity to the whistleblower, so people could frame them as they wanted. Thus, any woman in the city and country who is jealous of her beauty, or offends her suitor by her haughty attitude, will be sent to her death by a whistleblower letter, who will only have to stand quietly and watch the "good show" in order to achieve his insidious purpose.

At the same time, some people are trying to take revenge for themselves, and some people are trying to pass on their own crises, so there is a lot of whistleblowing for a while, and many people are panicking. The witch hunt even became a tool for the Order's members to vent their desires, and if they couldn't get their hands on the women they fancied, they would be falsely accused of "witches" and put to death.

The accused woman was dragged into the Order's courtroom, which had a round ceiling with pillars for hanging people, and a torture table with screwed iron shackles on the floor. The arrested woman was stripped naked and shaved all her body hair except her hair (supposedly to make it easier to find black moles, spots, etc., that could be confirmed to be possessed by demons), and then tied to the torture table with wire, and the torturers pricked her whole body with needles to look for traces of demons.

The methods of torture against witches are also varied. It is ironic that these sanctimonious inquisitors often used witchcraft themselves to "cure witches" when interrogating them. They prayed beforehand for the success of the punishment, poured "holy water" into the belly of the "witches" so that "the devil could not bind their tongues during the torture", and they glued straps to the stripped "witches" so that the devil would not be able to break the shackles.

In just over a month, 291 "witchcrafters" and heretics were executed in the holy city of Kailandil, of whom 268 were women and only 26 were men, and 11 of those 26 were convicted for their "close association with witches".

These so-called witches, to put it bluntly, are just a group of ordinary women, and the reason why there is such an ignorant and cruel act as "witch hunting" is initiated by the Order, and no one knows their true purpose. But no matter how many people there are, being able to do bad things is what makes them the happiest.

For example, in June, a woman accused of being a "witch" confessed to being tortured: "I have been an inappropriate woman since I can't remember." I tortured 104 children to death, including three of my own. They were dug up from the grave by me, some of them were boiled and eaten, some of them were processed into ointment and other potions for witchcraft, and I made their leg bones into flutes. I tortured my daughter-in-law and two children, and I tortured my two husbands for years before they died. Eventually, the witch was hung naked by the Order's heavily armed knights and stabbed to death in public with a spear.

Surrounded by a group of civilians watching the play, they were completely numb. Perhaps, they will only feel it if it is their family members who have been killed?

There was also a widow named Margareta who was accused of being a witch because of the people's jealousy of her property. Although she does not admit to being a "witch" and guilty of rebellion against God at first. But under the escalating torture, she had to make the following confession:

1. One night ten years ago, a black-faced man appeared in her garden, this man flirted with her, she fulfilled his wishes, he was a man with a cold temperament.

2. He convinces her not to believe in the Seven Gods, and she does, but she immediately feels guilty.

3. The man said that his name was Black Eyebrow and gave her a witchcraft broom, as well as some witch ointment (for witchcraft).

4. She used to fly in her garden at night for a while.

5. She used this broom to fly to Georg's house, and she also went to Katarina's house and Anna's house.

6. There were also many women whom she did not know, who had come to her house, and they ate and drank together.

After being forced to confess, she was tied up by the Order's Templars, tied to a pillar, and burned alive in the square. There are so many women of good families like Margareta who fell from heaven and died innocently in the fire.

The execution of some naked women is a good opportunity for many to "admire", toy with and insult women, and they can do whatever they want to these poor women, thus satisfying their bestial desires. Even in the interrogation record of the execution of the "witch", there are words such as "that woman is beautiful and plump".

In some remote places, there is a way to throw women into the river to identify "witches" or "witches". The first was to drag the accused woman to the bridge and strip her naked in full view, and then the Order had her knees bent and her hands and feet tied together for everyone to see. A rose-colored basket was then lowered into the water, and the woman was placed on her back, and the rope was loosened until the poor woman was drowned.

At that time, the execution of "witches" was like a circus performance, often attended by thousands of empty people, and some men were even more energetic, because the naked bodies of these "witches" and the painful distortion gave them a deformed sensory stimulation. In the square where the torture was burned, or by the bridge where the river was thrown, there were many stalls lined up, and many vendors gathered, almost like a market.

The "witches" who are imprisoned in dark and gloomy prisons can neither use "witchcraft" to escape, nor can they use "magic" to predict how they will be executed.

Witches who are arrested are usually burned at the stake, hanged, or beheaded.

Men use every means to exert their bestial desires on women. As for whether these women are guilty or not, they don't care at all.

It seems that this year's summer celebration is a little bloodier than any previous year.