No.136 The Durwich terror and the Salem witch trial

The bleak white electric light illuminated the walls of the book, and also illuminated the dark and strange thorn book, and liquid could be seen dripping on the tattered parchment cover, which was Ye Yifan's sweat of fear.

An eerie wind blew, and the tattered parchment book began to flutter in the wind, until it ended on a page depicting countless twisted balls of light, with an abominable description on it......

It is a thing of infinite being and self, all in which and it is in all - not just something in a space-time continuum, but with the ultimate source that animates everything within the boundless scope of all existence.

Yog Sothos is omniscient and omnipotent, and everything that has been, present, and future is encompassed in his vast body, which encompasses an infinite number of universes, an infinite number of dimensions. He himself is not in the multiverse, but in the abyss beyond all the space, space, and latitude of all universes.......

His consciousness was a little cloudy, and it seemed that there was only a billion-dollar ball of light shining in his mind, and Ye Yifan knew that it was the image of Yogsotos, the all-knowing and all-powerful god at the same height as the whisper.

Or that Yogsothos is not just an omniscient and all-powerful god, because it is itself a rule, it creates rules, it modifies rules. It is everything in this world.

The head is a little painful, this is the consequence of inspiration, whenever Ye Yifan knows about those indescribable existences, he will enter the illusion and see their images, and it is a miracle that he is not crazy now.

The dog's barking became louder and louder, making Ye Yifan a little upset. He finally knew why Uncle Ango didn't let him flip through the Book of Necromancy at will, because the San value was too low, and he fell into such pain after simply reading one page, and if he read it all, he was afraid that he would really go crazy.

Just when Ye Yifan was indulging in the pain of the illusion and couldn't extricate himself, a familiar brain convulsion woke him up from the pain. The scene in front of him gradually began to clear, and he saw an old face in front of him.

"it!"

Ye Yifan was taken aback by this face, and the owner of the same face was also taken aback. He stretched out two fingers again and pumped them on Ye Yifan's head and shouted, "You scared Uncle Ange!" ”

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Hearing this familiar voice, Ye Yifan realized that the old face was Uncle Ange. Because of the power outage in the library, he carried a very old kerosene lamp and put it on the table, but the light of the kerosene lamp was very dim, so the old face of Uncle Ango was very terrifying.

Saying that, Uncle Ango glanced at the Book of Necromancy on the table, and then glanced at Ye Yifan, he sighed and said, "I warned you a long time ago, but you just didn't listen......

"It's okay, I can hold on." Ye Yifan replied with a smile, and planned to go through the forbidden cult book again, because he hadn't finished reading it just now, and the suffix also had the word "Shub", which should be a personal name, and the translation should be called "Shabu", right? It is written after Yogsothos and should be associated with it.

But when Ye Yifan just stretched out his hand, Ange slapped him on the head with a brain, and at the same time pointed to Ye Yifan's nose and said solemnly: "Don't turn more!" ”

"But I didn't plan to read it all, did I?"

"Ah~! Do you want to fight Uncle Ango? If I can't see it, I'm not allowed to see it! Unless you want to become a believer in the devil! ”

This move that is more and more similar to the animated character, Ye Yifan is helpless. Although he knew the news of Yogsothoth, he did not know the spells to deal with it, which are recorded in the Necronomicon, including how to summon evil gods and how to banish them..... It is precisely because of this that countless cults want to get their hands on this book.

However, Uncle Ange has been here for 60 years, and he should know about the indescribable, so Ye Yifan asked him: "Uncle Ango, do you know Yugersotos?" ”

"Of course you do, Yogsothoth, Lord of Time and Space. Control all time and space, and guard the gates of all worlds, that is, gates. "There's one more thing, Randolph Carter, whose death and sublimation have something to do with Yogsothoth. ”

Ah, speaking of this, Ye Yifan remembered what Uncle Ange had just said. Randolph Carter crossed the Gate of the Silver Spoon and became an Ancients beyond humanity. And Yogsothoth, the gatekeeper, or the door of the silver spoon itself......

Good fellow, even the legendary Randolph Carter has fallen into the hands of Yogsothoth, and I don't know if I can survive it, because this time the man in black will not help him again.

I don't know if being an Ancients is a good ending, but for a seeker like Randolph Carter, it should be satisfying, right? But he's different, he doesn't care much about the truth, because there are still things worth protecting.

Thinking about it, Ango spoke again: "In fact, many of Arkham's dark legends are related to Yogsothoth, the most famous of which are the Salem witch trial and the Tunwich terror ......."

Ye Yifan didn't know these two things in detail, but the occurrence of these two events means that Yogsothos visited the earth centuries ago? Ye Yifan didn't know very well, so he asked, "Uncle Ange, can you tell these two stories in detail?" ”

"Ah, of course. Let's talk about the Dunwich horror first, it has something to do with this library, the Necronomicon, so I think you're a devil! Uncle Ango roared, so that the wrinkles on his forehead wrinkled deeply.

Then, he told Ye Yifan the dusty story......

Tunwich, the town around Arkham, is not a poor place, but it is a place abandoned by God. For more than 200 years, there has always been a foul stench in the air, especially after the terrorist events in Dunwich, when all the signposts were taken down and even the satellite positioning was gone.

The inhabitants of Dunwich, with their abominable deformed faces, are as lifeless as the rest of New England, and have gone down the path of no return. Their irrelevance is made up of inbreeding and physical defects, and their average intelligence is pitifully low.

It was on that fallen villain, shrouded in ominous suspicions, that the Son of the Devil was born...... That was Wilbur Waterley.

No one knows who Wilbur's father was, only that the dog in town barked like crazy on the night he was born. Wilbur's grandfather was a dark magic wizard and had an English manuscript of the Necronomicon.

Wilbur was able to run on the ground at the age of a month, and at the age of a year he could speak fluently, but his voice was very strange and low, and his appearance was not the physical characteristics of a human being, but a face as hateful as that of a goat.

When Wilbur was two years old, he could read and write, and he had been studying his grandfather's wicked books, and the local residents could hear the terrifying roars of Wilbur's house at night. Perhaps this is the intention of the Wilbur family to strengthen the second floor?

Finally, on a stormy night, Wilbur's grandfather died, and he gave Wilbur the Book of Necrons, telling him, "Open the door for Yogosothoth......"

"So the one named Wilbur is not an ordinary person, but an anomaly?"

Before Ye Yifan finished speaking, An Ge said with a fierce brain: "Listen to Uncle An Ge!" ”

After Wilbur's grandfather's death, Wilbur became a translator of the occult and frequently offered U-M invitations to borrow the Necronomicon from the University. Until he personally traveled to Miskatonik University.

Henry Armitage, Ango's predecessor and previous generations of librarians, was frightened when he met Wilbur. Because Wilbur's fat lips, yellowish skin full of coarse pores, coarse, curly hair, and strangely thin ears always gave the impression of a goat, or a beast.

Wilbur's purpose was to borrow and transcribe the Latin translation of the Necronomicon from the library, and then compare the contents to find a missing passage on one of the pages of his translation.

Dr. Henry lent it to him, and the missing passage from Wilbur is the 751st page that Ye Yifan consulted! Concerning Yogsothoth. After reading that page, Wilbur offered to take the book home to study, but Dr. Henry, seeing the contents of the page Wilbur's transcription, knew that the other party wanted to perform some kind of ritual and contact with a force, so he flatly refused.

Wilbur didn't feel anything, and left. It wasn't until the evening, at the barking of the watchdogs, that Dr. Henry knew he had come back to steal the Necronomicon. By the moment he opened the library's door, Wilbur had turned into a half-human monster, and at the same time had been killed by the library's watchdogs, turning him into a foul-smelling pile of filthy flesh.

Hearing this, Ye Yifan finally knew why Uncle Ange was so vigilant. For he was now behaving like that Wilbur, and with that barking dog, it was doubtful.

However, the watchdog of Mi Da is really powerful, and he can actually bite and kill aliens, so it seems that he will have to be careful when he goes out.

Uncle Ango then went on to say that Wilbur had a twin brother, but more of a monster than he was, and that he was wandering around Tunwich, killing and destroying, ready to perform the ritual that their brothers had been preparing for a long time.

Dr. Henry learned the spell to banish them from the Necronomicon left by Wilbur. Along with two other Umi professors, he met Wilbur's brother near his hometown.

Bigger than a stable, like a twisted rope. That hellish thing was like a very big egg, with dozens of arms, like a vat with a mouth. When they walk, the mouth is half-closed.

There was nothing solid around it, it was all jelly-like stuff, and it was full of protruding eyes. One or twenty mouths that protruded deep at the end of the arm, or like an elephant's trunk, as big as a chimney pipe, were swinging, all gray, with blue or purple rings. At the top, there's half a human face!

This frightened the three professors to recite a spell immediately, which finally ended the Wilbur brothers and put an end to the terrorist incident in Dunwich. It's just that after the three professors saw the terrible things, the spirit behind them became more and more unstable, and finally went crazy.

"One more thing, according to the information left by Dr. Henry, it is confirmed that the two Wilbur brothers are half-human and half-god, and their father is none other than Yogosototh!"

After hearing this, Ye Yifan's head hurt a little, I don't know if it was the sequelae of being hit by Ange's brain, or if this story is too terrifying......

It's ridiculous to think about it, obviously he is the son of God, one was bitten to death by a dog, and the other was scolded to death by blocking the door of the house. Maybe it's because it's incomplete? Both brothers are not very old and are still in the stage of growing their bodies......

"What about the Salem Witch Trial?" Ye Yifan asked.

"The Salem Witch Trials are still a mystery, but the finger is pointed at Jugsothoth......" Ango then goes on to talk about the Salem Witch Trials of 1600.

In 1600, one of the towns of Arkham was not called Arkham, but Salem, and it was not until the Salem Witch Incident that the two towns were collectively called Arkham.

In 1692, the two daughters of the priest Samir Paris fell ill with a strange illness, screaming and throwing things. Sometimes the body cramps and moans in pain. Then, the other girls showed the same symptoms, and panic engulfed the town......

At that time, the priest believed that it was a form of witchcraft and demanded that the girl must identify the people who used witchcraft.

At that time, it was widely believed that demons were transmitted from one person to another. That is, the demon must have a person act as its agent. The demon then appears as an agent to harm others. The ghost is visible only to the victim. It is this "ghost evidence theory" that is accepted by the courts.

In May 1692, the prisons of Salem and Arkham were both suspected witchcraft suspects accused by girls, and about 200 people were charged with witchcraft crimes, with more women than men.

As the witch case continues to expand, some people begin to doubt the veracity of the girls' allegations. In the summer of 1692, the hanging of 6 witches did not bring an end to the witch trials in Massachusetts. More and more people are showing symptoms of illness, and so are the accusations and trials of witches.

Under strong pressure from public opinion, Governor Phipp decreed on 29 October 1692 that no witchcraft suspects should be imprisoned except as a last resort, and that no suspects in custody should be harmed. In January 1693, the last trial of witchcraft was concluded, and Governor Phipp granted amnesty to all witchcraft suspects in custody and terminated all trials.

"But what does this have to do with Yogsothoth?" Ye Yifan asked suspiciously, he had always felt that the Salem Witch Trial was a farce.

At that time, medical skills were not very developed, so I believed in gods and ghosts. The girl may just have a strange illness......

An Ge knew that Ye Yifan would say this, so he took out a yellowed photo from the bookshelf and handed it to Ye Yifan.

And Ye Yifan picked up the photo and looked at it, his face changed greatly......