Forming a tradition of witch hunting and witch trials? Wu Ming was keenly aware of the implicit meaning of the other party's words, the tradition of witch hunting was not actually based on the original witch being judged, but after the town continued to produce new witches, did this tradition gradually form?

That's right. The proprietress affirms that in many of the original stories, the townsfolk inadvertently break the identity of the witch, and then arrest the witch and her pet and put them on trial. But in the later story, there was a systematic process for the identification and trial of witches, and it was at that time that the tradition of witch hunting was added to the story, I guess it may be that after the townspeople raised funds to establish the church, the witch trial movement influenced the townspeople of the town through the priest of the church, so the plot of witch hunting was added to the story. At the same time, it has been passed down as a tradition in the town along with the story.

The second story that I find interesting is the one that takes place in the context of the formation of the witch trial and hunting tradition.

At that time, the witch trial had a very complete process in the town, unlike the first period of the witch hunt, the people in the town seemed to live in harmony, but secretly supervised each other, and anything unusual could be regarded by the suspicious townspeople as someone performing witchcraft or magic.

In the early days, they would report to the mayor of the town, they would tell the priest of the church who might be witches, they would report everything they felt suspicious, they would accuse each other, and the people who might be accused of being witches would accuse other people of being witches, so many people in the town who were accused of being witches were interrogated and sentenced, and in the end, it often led to witch trials and hunts becoming a farce of throwing dirty water on each other

Hearing this, Wu Ming couldn't help frowning: According to the story, I'm afraid it won't be long before all the people in the town will have the experience of being accused of being a witch, right? What should I do when this happens? Is it possible to pull the whole town together to execute the stake?

It was this situation where the proprietress shook her head, so in the end all the convictions and sentences were handed down by the priests and judges, who were able to distinguish witches, as long as they said who was a witch, who was a witch, and who needed to be purified by flames of sinful souls, who would be burned at the stake

Otto interrupted her in disbelief: Wait, is there no evidence to back it up? Just by a word from a priest and a judge, can you determine who is a witch? Can we determine who is guilty?

At least that's the way it is in the story. The proprietress glanced at him faintly, and said with a calm and unhurried expression: That's why I don't like these stories, and I hope that these are just stories made up by old people, because if this is a real thing, it is too cruel for many people

The young man's eyes widened with thinning hair, and he couldn't imagine how cruel and desperate it would have been if these stories had ever happened.

Otto patted him on the shoulder at this time, it was an era of suspicion, once anyone was named a heretic, it meant that no matter what he did, it was a heretical blasphemy, and the screams of pain from being tortured would be regarded as talking to the devil, and the pain of enduring torture was silent as the devil was helping him eliminate the pain, if the woman's eyes wandered, it meant that the devil she believed in was in the interrogation room, if she looked firmly and answered sonorously, Then the devil apparently taught her how to deal with the judges of the Inquisition

No matter what you do, you can't prove your innocence, and as long as the inquisitor thinks you are a heretic, then all that awaits you is a trial and a verdict.

This Otto looked at the old hunter with a slightly guilty expression and was speechless for a while, and he didn't know what to say for a long time:

Of course, that's not the subject of this story. Seeing that Otto was lost in thought, the proprietress slowly continued: Since the priest and the inquisitor took over the task of adjudicating witches, the townsfolk have been tasked with providing clues to their trials, and of course they have come up with a unique way of identifying witches.

Misfortune? Wu Ming remembered the information he learned from the mayor of the town last night, and answered, as long as abnormal things start to happen in the town one after another, or misfortune encounters, it means that the witch's curse has returned to the town, and a witch trial is needed?

You know a lot about it, the proprietress sighed with interest, this should be the town

Tell you about it, right? That's right, that's it, and the townsfolk will be able to see who is the most unfortunate in the town, because people who are unfortunate are more likely to become witches, so this is an excellent way for them to identify witches, and as long as the witch is judged, the anomalies and frequent misfortunes in the town will gradually stop.

The second story revolves around this special identification, the protagonist of the story is an unfortunate girl, because her unfortunate townspeople suspect her as a witch, the priest and the judge of the church have never given a clear verdict, the story is unfolded from the perspective of the unfortunate girl from beginning to end, the townspeople privately believe that she is a witch, and use their own methods to implement justice, and carry out many excessive and violent acts against her to test whether she is a witch, And the unfortunate girl will always be obedient to these abuses and endure them silently.

She had no way to resist the abusers, no one but her mother wanted to help her, no one wanted to side with her, and in the end, even her mother could not protect her, so she could only watch as the violent townsfolk lynched her at the stake.

It's really an unpleasant story Alex frowned, this story made him feel very unhappy from beginning to end, and Wu Ming was not much different from his feelings, so what about the ending of the story?

The proprietress had a playful smile on her face: however, at the end of the story, the unfortunate witch finally showed her ugly side, and she used magic to curse the people of the entire town to never be happy, cursing that they would always be haunted by the witch's misfortune and calamity, and that they would never be able to escape from the town, and that their souls would be bound to this land until the town was destroyed and the witch's curse was broken.

After listening to this shocking story, Otto fell into a complete state of stupor, his mouth wide open, his expression changed again and again, and finally he could not say anything.

Wu Ming and Alex also fell silent and didn't speak again for a long time.

Next, I'm going to go with Otto to visit the town doctor and see if the people who had been in a coma last night have woken up. After a while, a few people who had finished breakfast stood at the door of the tavern, Alex sorted out the folds on his clothes, and looked at Wu Ming and Qi Gefei, who was silent throughout the whole process, brother, are you really not going together?

Let's forget Wu Ming rejected Alex's proposal, I have a little thing to confirm here, by the way, look for the traces of another stranger in the town, you go first, and meet directly at the church at noon.

Alex didn't force him to say this, nodded and pulled Otto away: Okay, then we'll see you at noon.

See you at noon.

The proprietress had just finished cleaning the store at this time, and staggered to the door of the store to wipe her hands with a rag: Little brother, are you going to go out later?

Well, when he was about to go out, Wu Ming replied casually, but halfway through the words, he once again felt a familiar sense of gaze, and involuntarily turned his head to look in the direction where the sense of gaze came.

It was still the girl with long golden chestnut hair, she was still wearing that set of shabby and patched old clothes, and a red dress that was washed to a little whitish, standing at the corner of the town street timidly showing half of her head to observe Wu Ming's side, but this time she didn't immediately turn around and run, her bright eyes were full of confusion, but Wu Ming could see that there was still a little fear and uneasiness in the other party's confused gaze.

Nina?

Wu Ming's pupils contracted slightly, and the name that flashed in his mind blurted out without thinking.

Well? Perhaps noticing his strange behavior, the proprietress let out a confused nasal voice, followed his gaze and saw the girl on the corner of the street, and suddenly showed a look of surprise: Oh, are you calling that little girl? The child was quite pitiful, her father was gone, and her mother passed away last year because a lot of unfortunate things happened to her. A while ago, she was treated as a witch, but fortunately, a kind foreigner rescued her, otherwise the townspeople might lynch her

Wu Ming couldn't hear the next words, and he walked in the direction of the girl step by step.

However, when the girl noticed his approach, she quickly retracted her head like a frightened rabbit, and turned her head without giving the other party any chance to communicate

Quickly fled the street corner.

Later, Wu Ming wanted to stop the girl, but the latter didn't listen to him at all, just ran away and disappeared around the corner in the blink of an eye, and in desperation, Wu Ming could only chase after Qi Gefei quickly.

The proprietress looked at the backs of the two of them moving away quickly, and sighed helplessly: Little brother, you will be arrested as a pervert like this

Nina ran on the cement road of the town with her skirt, she didn't run fast, and from time to time she would look back in horror to see if the people behind her had caught up, fortunately, she seemed to have thrown off the people behind her, but she was still a little uneasy, and after carefully circumnavigating around several times outside to avoid people, she quietly returned home.

It wasn't until she slammed the wooden door shut and locked it that she breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground leaning against the door.

Finally escaped.

If you catch up, you don't know what kind of abuse you will be subjected to

Thinking of the thrilling experience just now, Nina felt a little uncontrollable fear in her heart, recently the people in the town have become more and more strange, the adults who no longer insulted her as a witch, and their attitude towards her turned a hundred and eighty degrees and became kind, no longer bullying her, and her peers who were good friends with her, have recently begun to treat her as a witch again, their behavior is even more radical than a few years ago, some people pushed her into the pond, some people hit her with stones, and some people even wanted to put her on the stake and purify her with flames a while ago

Nina was scared.

She didn't know what she had done wrong to be treated like this, and she didn't know why the people who had treated her so kindly hated her as much as they had done before.

Is it because Nina did something wrong? She tried to confront the townsfolk in this way, but no one answered her question, they just shouted that she was a witch and that she should be burned at the stake.

But fortunately, as long as she can return to her home, the townspeople will not dare to break in, if even the house is not safe, I am afraid that Nina will be burned at the stake by these townspeople.

She sat on the ground and rested for a while, feeling that her strength had recovered a little before she got up, and she patted her pink little face hard to regain her spirits.

Nina, it's okay! You have to believe in yourself that one day you will be able to get out of here!

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