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Chapter 110: Pandora's "Meaning" I

What is witchcraft: Witchcraft is the magic that attempts to exert influence or control over certain people or things with the help of supernatural and mystical powers. In ancient times, the female name of the caster was the witch, and the name of the man was the witch.

Witchcraft is classified as: From the perspective of the nature of witchcraft, witchcraft can be divided into black witchcraft and white witchcraft. Black witchcraft refers to witchcraft used when blaming someone else; White witchcraft is the witchcraft used when praying for good fortune, so it is also called auspicious witchcraft.

From the perspective of the means of performing witchcraft, witchcraft can be divided into two categories, one is imitation witchcraft, and the other is contact witchcraft.

Imitation witchcraft is a form of witchcraft that uses similar things as a substitute for good fortune or disaster. If you hate someone, you will take the form of a human and write the date of birth of that person, or burn them with fire, throw them into water, or slash them with a needle or a bayonet, so that they will die. By nature, this is black witchcraft.

Another example is that children often fall into the well, in order to avoid disasters, often make a puppet instead of children into the well, this behavior is called disaster breaking. In ancient production customs, rice flowers began, and men and women met in the field to promote rice earing. If a person has sores, he can draw them on plant leaves or yellow paper to remove the disease, which is also called imitation witchcraft.

Contact Witchcraft: It is a method of witchcraft that uses a part of a thing or an item associated with a time to seek good fortune. This kind of witchcraft can serve its purpose as long as it comes into contact with a part of someone's human body or a person's utensils. If someone is sick, put a coin or something more valuable in the sick person's painful area. Then throw it on the road for others to pick up. So Ren Wei was transferred to the pickers. Put the bowl, Jiang Yuan's traces of the ancestors of Zhou are all in contact with witchcraft.

In the past, the evil witchcraft used to collect the hair, beard, nails, and beloved objects of the discordant. in case of harm to the other party. A child's name should not be given to anyone else, otherwise he will be subject to others.

In the Middle Ages, OU was historically known as the "Dark Age", and it was also a time full of contradictions.

With the "Harry? "Potter Fever" has taken the world by storm, and people are full of fantasies about the "wizarding world" of the medieval continent of OU.

As a special group in the "wizarding world", what kind of life do witches live, and how have their lives changed due to "witchcraft"?

The word witch originally meant "wise woman". Later, it was extended to "witch", "witch" and so on. In the childhood of human society, witchcraft was a form of magic that controlled the forces of nature and the transfer of ideas. Archaeologists have found patterns of half-human, half-beast sorcerers summoning forest gods on Neolithic cave paintings.

In the Age of Ignorance, shamans played a very heavy social role: they used spells, but they also used potions to protect their people from natural disasters, foreign invasions, and enemies; supervise the public to correct mistakes and measure right and wrong; Explain natural and terrifying phenomena, etc......

In European folklore, the early "witches" are represented by the witches Sersi and Medea from ancient Greek mythology. According to legend, Sersi possessed powerful magical powers, and with the help of herbs, she was able to chant spells and summon gods to cast spells, and those who offended her would turn into animals and create illusions that did not exist. Sersi can also hide the moon and sun, making the land dark. will also poison her enemies to kill them.

Medea, another witch in European legend, was a princess of the island nation of Kocis and the goddaughter of the goddess of the moon. Know how to concoct elixirs, divination, poisoning and other black magic. Medea fell in love with Jason, a foreign prince who was fighting against her father in order to get the Golden Fleece. For the sake of her lover Jason, Medea killed her brother with her own hands.

Later, Jason empathized and married a princess from a neighboring country, and the abandoned Medea, in a fit of rage, made a dress stained with poison, gave it to Jason's fiancée, killed her, and brutally murdered the two young sons she had given birth to for Jason.

For most of the time after mankind entered the "civilized society", female witchcraft practitioners had a good social status and economic interests, which aroused the jealousy and revenge of male witchcraft practitioners and the male society as a whole, and deliberately persecuted them on fabricated charges, or equated female counterparts with mental patients.

In the Middle Ages, it was widely believed that every night, witches would smear themselves with "devil's oil" made from babies, then pass through cracks and keyholes, climb chimneys, ride broom handles, spindles or spaceships, and fly to the meeting place of the demons to attend the witches' gathering...... Evil intentions lead to demonic temptations, and women who mishave and debauchery are often seen as being subjected to witches, and hailstorms, poor harvests, and diseases are also caused by witches.

From the fifteenth century onwards, the "witches" were persecuted for nearly three hundred years. During these 300 years, many women of good families were falsely accused of being "witches", beheaded in public, or burned at the stake. In 1487, the witch's hammer, a "professional book" on witch hunting, was also published.

With the popularization of modern printing in OU Chau, the book was reprinted nearly 30 times in succession in the nearly 200 years from 1487 to 1669, thus triggering a protracted "witch hunt". The Hammer of the Witches details the specific methods of interrogation of "witches" and the effective methods used to ensure the success of the trial. There is neither a prosecution process nor a defender, and in addition to torture as a means of extracting confessions, there is also the so-called "witch" test.

According to the theory provided in the book, since the "witches" were enchanted by the devil and were no longer sensitive to pain, they could be tortured as they pleased. For example, if the defendant's hand is burned with a red-hot iron block, if the hand is burned, the defendant is guilty; Have the defendant take a holy ring with his hand in boiling water, then put a bandage and seal on his hand, and after three days if there is no trace, he will be innocent, and so on......

An even more bizarre way to identify it is to tie the defendant's hands and feet and throw her into a lake – if she sinks to the bottom, she is not guilty; Conversely, if she floats on the water, it means that she is blessed by the devil and must be burned at the stake. The result of this absurdity is that regardless of whether the person being judged is "guilty" or not, they have no choice but to die.

According to legend. At that time, there was a saying among the people of OU Zhou: "Aren't witches going to fly all over the sky on broomsticks?" The method of testing whether a woman is a witch is related to her weight. Anyone who is underweight is counted as a witch. ”

This is due to the fact that the statistics come from different sources. Later generations have not been able to give an accurate answer to the number of "witches" in the witch extermination frenzy, and various statistics range from hundreds of thousands to millions. Bambeck, a small town in Bavaria, DYZ, was a small town of 6,000 people, but within five years, 600 people were condemned to death as witches.

In Würzburg, another small city with a similar population, nearly 900 "witches" were unjustly killed at the same time, which is equivalent to one "witch" being executed every two days. 1597. Clara, a widow from DYZ who lives on part-time jobs? Geisler, who was 67 years old, was falsely accused of being a "witch" and was accused of having lived with three devils, killing more than 240 people, causing houses to catch fire nine times, and burning the city down...... She breathed under torture.

At the end of the interrogation, the interrogation record reads: "The devil did not want her to confess anything more, so he tightened her neck." "The judges and priests profited from this: they enjoyed the gratitude that people were grateful to them, and after each witch was burned, they demanded money from the families of the deceased for firewood and money for a celebratory feast.

At that time, the people of OU saw cats as accomplices of witches and went on a killing spree against cats. This led to a significant decrease in the number of cats in the Middle Ages. Almost on the brink of extinction. Cats were plagued, resulting in a rampant infestation. It also triggered the terrible plague, which killed more than 25 million people in OU. In Switzerland, people stabbed the cloth bag full of cats with sharp knives until they stabbed the cat to death; In Copenhagen, cats are thrown from high bell towers to hear their dying screams.

In 1691, the daughter of a pastor in Salem, Massachusetts, a country M, suddenly fell ill with a strange disease: she stumbled and stumbled, her whole body ached, and she would have sudden convulsions, and her expression was very terrifying. Subsequently, seven girls with whom she was inseparable developed the same symptoms. From the perspective of modern medicine, this is a manifestation of "dancing disease" (a neurological genetic disease of the brain, the carrier of the disease has a certain incubation period, and when the disease occurs, the symptoms are uncontrolled movement of various joints and muscles).

The main culprit of these symptoms is a fungus called ergot fungus that parasitizes rye. However, it is widely believed that the real cause of the children's strange illness was the village slave girl Tituba and another female beggar, as well as a withdrawn old woman who never went to church. The three poor women were tortured to extract confessions, and the number of "witches" and "wizards" also increased step by step, with more than 20 "witches" and "witches" dying in this unjust case, and more than 200 others being arrested or imprisoned.

In 1992, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a resolution declaring the restoration of all the victims of the Salem witchcraft 300 years ago.

Not long ago, an independent body submitted a petition to the Scottish local council of the YGL country to restore the honour of more than 4,000 Scottish "witches" and "wizards" who were executed in the Middle Ages. Not only YGL countries, but last year the state parliament of Glarus in RS country announced the rehabilitation of "the last witch in Europe".

In the so-called witch hunting, the most cruel is the cruel punishment of lewdness and cruelty, because they can't stand the inhuman torture, countless people have been tortured into tricks, these so-called witches are just a group of ordinary women, the reason why there is a "witch hunt" This kind of ignorance and cruel behavior, in short: first, think that women are "woe", "cheap goods" is not only a Chinese patent, in fact, many nations in the world have this tradition.

In a patriarchal society, women are oppressed, and men often blame women for their mistakes and weaknesses.

Second, there is a long history of imagination in human society about the existence of supernatural powers, witchcraft, and demons.

In ancient times, productivity was low, and life was mostly determined by natural factors, and when existential difficulties such as famine, poverty, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters appeared, and people needed to explain them, it was easy to blame them on the action of an unnatural or supernatural force -- demons, wizards, and gods and monsters came into being.

At that time, it was easy to frame a woman as a witch or a witch, and at that time there was a reward for the informant and a guarantee of confidentiality and immunity, so it was possible to frame her as a liking. Any woman who is jealous of her beauty or offends her suitor by her arrogant attitude will be killed by a whistleblower letter. All the whistleblower had to do was quietly stand by and watch the show, fulfilling his insidious purpose.

Some people do it for personal revenge. Some of them are trying to pass on their own crises. Therefore, the wind of whistleblowing is flourishing, and many people are panicking. It is said that a man named Escher said before his arrest in 1576 that he was able to confess 300,000 witches, and more than 3,000 people died in the end.

The witch hunt even became a tool for the clergy to vent their lusts, and if they couldn't get their hands on the women they fancied, they would be falsely accused of witches and put to death.

In 1616, a woman accused of being a witch confessed to severe torture: "I have been a prostitute since I can remember." I tortured a hundred and four children to death. Including the biological three. They were dug out of their graves by me, some of them were boiled and eaten, some of them were made into ointments 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.

In 1335, the Inquisition of Toulouse, Peter? Guy tried several witches and tortured them until they were forced to confess to a pact with Satan and attend a carnival to worship Hades. Fornicating with Hades, eating the flesh of young children, etc. They were forced to confess and then burned alive.

This evil tide has swept through the continent of OU for 300 years. The savage and deformed side of human beings is brought into full play. Once a woman from a good family is falsely accused of being a witch. He was immediately beheaded for public display, and then his body was burned, and the number of unjust ghosts under the knife was difficult to count. Europeans see themselves as purging demons of God and cleansing the world of evil, and ironically, their methods of interrogating and executing witches are themselves evil and extremely lewd.

According to the propaganda of the church, a witch is a person who has made a secret covenant with the devil and sold her soul to the devil, and is a descendant of the devil. The devil can be transformed into a man and a woman and a woman and a man; However, the son born of the devil's intercourse with a woman was born of JZ that he took from another man, so his main purpose was to make the man impotent.

The book also cites the "example" of a male victim who asked a witch to return his lost organs, and the witch told him to climb a tree and take one from the nest where she had hidden many men's raw weapons. The man wanted to take a "bigger one", but was severely reprimanded by the witch because it belonged to another priest and was not to be moved.

The book also describes how witches and demons feast, eat people's hearts and livers, dance, indulge in lust, and so on. He also said how they did "artificial delivery", taking out the fetus's head, hands, and feet little by little. The activities of witches were regarded by the Church as a heresy against God and must be severely punished, so the fight against witches became a "sacred mission" to defend God.

The accused woman was dragged into the courtroom with a pillar for hanging people from the ceiling; There was also a torture table on the floor, on which screwed iron shackles were placed. The "witches" were stripped naked, and all their body hair was shaved except for their hair (supposedly in search of black moles and spots that could be confirmed to be possessed by demons); She was then tied to a torture table with wire, and the torturer pricked her whole body with needles to look for traces of demons.

There are also a variety of methods of torture against witches. Ironically, these sanctimonious inquisitors often used witchcraft themselves to "cure witches with witches" when interrogating witches. They prayed beforehand for the success of the punishment; poured holy water into the bellies of witches, so that the devil could not bind their tongues during torture; Glue a strap to the naked witch so that the devil can't open the shackles.

As with the ancient "naked executions" in country C, the execution of naked women was a good opportunity for many to "admire", play with, and insult women, and they could do whatever they wanted to these poor women, thus satisfying their bestial desires. And what is even more absurd than country C is that in the interrogation record of the execution of the "witch", there are words such as "that woman is beautiful and plump".

Like the beheading in country C, the burning at the stake in OU was a more commonly used death penalty in the Middle Ages, in addition to some cruel death sentences such as piercing and sawing. In that dark era, the women of OU suffered no less than the women of country C.

In the Middle Ages DYZ country, there was also a way to throw a woman into a river to identify a witch or witch. The accused woman was first dragged to the bridge and stripped naked in full view of the public, and then the torturers bent her knees and tied her hands and feet together for everyone to see. Then a rose-colored basket was lowered to the surface of the water, and the woman was placed on her back in the basket, and the rope was loosened a little.

That period. The execution of witches is like a circus pornographic show. It is often crowded with thousands of people coming to watch. Some men were more energetic, for the naked bodies of these witches, the contortion of pain, 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 small stalls lined up, and many hawkers gathered, as if they were rushing to a temple fair.

Looking south from the crossroads in the center of Freiburg's old town, the quaint Martin Gate stands just a hundred meters away. The solid stone wall is nailed with a metal plaque with a description in German. It reads: "On March 24, 1599, Margareta M., Catarina S., and Anna W. were beheaded, burned, and sacrificed in a vicious wave of witch persecution.

Freiburg on March 24, 1599, on that cold early spring day, on the embankment not far from Martin's Gate, where Margareta and three others accused of witchcraft were to be beheaded. Under the embankment and across the river, there were citizens who came to watch. Seeing blood splattering from the light of the knife, they followed the cart loaded with the corpses to the crematorium, two kilometers south of the city.

Margareta, Catarina, and Anna were martyred by the evil forces of religion during the frenzied period of the "witch persecution" in the late Middle Ages in OU. This kind of destruction of women is a real demonic act. It is worth noting that this heinous phenomenon still existed in OU continent more than 300 years ago.

Although in general. The level of respect for women in OU is higher than in countries such as Asia and Africa, but in a patriarchal society. Men will think of women as nothing more than their appendages, inferior. So when they need to torture women, the means are often outrageous.

In the witch hunt that exterminated humanity in the Middle Ages, the bestiality of men in OU continent towards women reached its peak. The sanctimonious apologists described the "witches" as evil, promiscuous people who liked to party naked, fly around on broomsticks, and have ......sex with the devil, and use this as an excuse for them to torture and kill the "witches."

The "witch's wedge", which was very popular in the Middle Ages, was only for women. Place the Y or G part of the "witch" on the tip of the pyramid wedge, tie iron balls or other weights to their feet, and cause their bodies to slide under the force of gravity, and eventually be split ....... It is a completely obscene and obscene torture instrument, which is not comparable to the wooden donkey that was prevalent in country C at that time.

Witches in dark and gloomy prisons have no witchcraft to escape or magic to predict how they will be executed.

Pandora, on the other hand, was a famous witch during the worship of the gods in ancient Greece, and her witchcraft or medical skills were very high, and she was the best in the white witchcraft.

Her astrological and verbal prophecies were very accurate, and she now had a very high prestige among the tribe, and at that time she was a witch on a par with Medea, Sersi, Kassandra, etc.

But she has two fatal weaknesses: one is that she is too beautiful, so beautiful that people dare not look at it directly. Her beauty has both the beauty of standard Peugeot and the sexy beauty that all men want to see the most, but any normal man, once he sees such a beauty, he can't help but think about it.

The second is to have a kind, benevolent, broad and tolerant heart, and a heart that is as tender as the sea in the world. This kind of kindness and kindness, maternal love and affection is actually a kind of genetics, Pandora's entire tribe has always been kind to others, just like the ideal realm of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", "chickens and dogs smell each other, old and die do not get along", but at the same time, it is also a tribe that has been oppressed and hit.

Countless large tribal leaders and chieftains came to propose marriage and show their love, and these leaders and chieftains were the gods of ancient Greece written by later scholars.

However, because Pandora is the goddess of protection of the tribe and the goddess of love in the hearts of the tribesmen, Pandora and the clan leaders resolutely refused.

Pandora's own attitude is also very clear, no matter who comes to propose love, they will be refused, and if anyone wants to use force to snatch it, she can only die.

These later gods came to cast rat bogeys; Both have covetousness; The strength of several large tribes is equal, and no one dares to act rashly, and they are still safe for a while.

A catastrophe befell the ancient Greek peninsula, it was an unstoppable plague, and in modern times it was nothing more than a large-scale flu, this plague upset the balance of power in the entire ancient Greek peninsula, and Pandora's doom began to come. (To be continued......)