Chapter 81: The Witches' Society

The "New England" region is a less official term that includes the six states of present-day America.

It has the best educational environment in the United States and the world, including Yale, Harvard, MIT and other well-known top universities.

Most of the early settlers in this land were English Puritans fleeing religious persecution, and even the earliest pioneers of the United States were the "outcasts" of European countries at that time.

They crossed the ocean to a barren and savage land to start a new life, hoping to become new nobles in another world.

Perhaps this is why the United States as a country and nation has never had much attachment and gratitude for its "roots".

Most of New England has been marked by intolerant religious practices and draconian laws, which have led to many horrific tragedies and events.

The town of Salem, one of New England's oldest seaports and an industrial city in Massachusetts, has a particularly well-known title - "City of Witches".

「. This way! Honey, you won't want to miss the ritual experience of burning witches, and I guarantee that Agatha's Witch Hunt is the most authentic witch sightseeing spot in all of Salem."

The woman has long thick hair that is dark brown and almost black, she is very tall, has a wide skeleton, and has an amazing voice.

Dressed in a 17th-century off-white tunic with a white coat of arms pinned to her neckline, she stood at the entrance to a witch attraction built from an old farmhouse, leaning at her waist and shouting for tourists to come in.

「. Five dollars! $5 to visit all the "Witch Hunt" attractions and get to play the "Burning Witch" project."

Emma Howlett and Master Mark of the New York Sanctuary stand across the street from the oak fence, which is also a suburban location in the town of Salem.

The entire dark experience hall is located in a dense locust forest, with only a few small cabins of the townspeople on the periphery.

Emma put on a khaki trench coat handmade by craftsmen in addition to the eye-catching pure white combat suit, but her extraordinarily tall figure and glamorous appearance still attracted tourists and passers-by, especially the townspeople, who frequently looked sideways and couldn't move their feet.

She was a little uncomfortable being stared at, and by brushing the bright blonde hair that fell from her forehead, she gently touched the corners of her forehead, and with a slight movement, she dispersed the crowd around her.

"Master Mark, the so-called "Salem Witches". It can't be a gimmick that the city has come up with to attract tourists, right?"

Emma put her hands in the outer pockets of her trench coat, her voice clear and graceful, but her words were still suspicious of the intelligence information of the Kama Taj mages.

But Professor Charles's brainwave search did find a mist-like strange psychic power here.

After the two came to Salem Town through the mystical portal, they saw all kinds of witch-themed taverns, restaurants, and shops along the way.

Even the real place where all kinds of conclusive witch incidents took place, and the rumored evil spirits and devils possessed by mortals are endless, and almost the price is clearly marked to attract tourists to visit and consume, as if it is a complete "witch industry chain".

Mr. Mage straightened the strange bun on his head, and although he changed out of the pleated robe of the Mystic, he put on a black riding coat that is common in New York's Chinatown, which looked even more eye-catching.

"Ma'am, the "Witch Society" is indeed a magical organization that appeared in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, not a rumor made up by people, and the town of Salem was once one of their gathering points, but the famous "Salem Witch Trial" has not touched real witches, they are just poor women who have been innocently harmed."

Emma listened to Master Mark talk about the real tragedy more than 200 years ago, and walked towards the entrance of "Agatha's Witch Hunt Town", handed the grinning woman ten dollars at the door, and the two of them joined the back of the line to visit.

At the beginning of the year, at the coldest time of the year, the daughter of a pastor in the town of Salem suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, and then seven girls with whom she was usually inseparable showed the same symptoms of convulsions.

From the perspective of modern medicine, this is one of the "dancing diseases".

kind of performance. These symptoms are caused by a fungus called ergot fungus that parasitizes rye, which is typical of food poisoning.

But it was widely believed at the time that the real cause of the children's strange illness was a black slave girl and another female beggar in the village, as well as a withdrawn old woman who never went to church.

The townspeople tortured the three women to extract confessions, using many horrific torture methods, and the local judge also held a public investigation into the matter.

「. But soon, things went to the other extreme, more and more people were released from their ignorance and the anger in their hearts, the rabble couldn't help but arrest people everywhere, and many people realized that only "confession" could avoid going to the gallows, and began to bite their friends and even relatives indiscriminately."

Emma and the mage walked at the end of the tour, looking at the display of all kinds of realistic old medieval torture instruments displayed in the farmhouse.

The black-brown specks of rust, and the still sturdy steel cuff steel cone, did not look like a crude imitation of the furnishings.

She listened to Master Mark tell the history of Salem, which was similar to the history of the "witch trials" told by the woman who had just shouted at the door and was now a docent.

It wasn't until the lady, who seemed to be the owner of the "Witch Hunt Park" and the only staff member, led all the visitors to the very end of the exhibition hall.

There were nine pitch-black coffins on display, and the air around them became extremely cold, and even a white mist faintly came out of his breath.

The woman's voice was still thick, her gaze jumped over the crowd in front of the group, almost looking at Emma's eyes and blinking slyly, and the story she told began to change differently:

「. In the end, the absurd trial sentenced nineteen people to be hanged, and one person was crushed to death by a pile of stones, oh! It's all poor innocents, it's all women, but is this town really just crazy about catching witches because a few children have a strange disease?"

She is like an orator who is very good at telling stories, and her emotions and words move the attention of visitors.

The woman leaned down, rolled her eyes and frightened the little boy who was biting her finger at the front, and suddenly raised her voice, and screamed in an eerie voice:

「. Because the townsfolk of Salem saw this!"

Boom, boom, boom

The pitch-black coffins erected by the nine statues were covered with fine cracks, and I don't know what kind of wood they were made of.

Suddenly, as if a control machine had been installed, the lid of the coffin was opened at the same time, and it rumbled in front of the tourists, raising clouds of dust and wafting out the smell of old mold.

Piercing screams followed, and many young people were so frightened that they jumped up in the air, scratching at the people around them.

In the coffin, there were nine hideous-looking dried corpses, and the sparse and messy hair could even be vaguely identified as women, and they still had black robe-style clothes on their bodies, and the texture of the broken and decayed clothing really seemed to have been preserved for more than two hundred years.

Smack, smack, smack

Applause and cheers rang out one after another, and the visitors gave the greatest recognition to the climax of the whole witch's tale at the end, and even some young men had the audacity to touch one of the shriveled and wrinkled blue-black corpses.

"Ho! With so many tourists visiting this witch attraction in such a remote location, it really has the means to finalize."

Master Mark stroked his goatee and muttered in amazement, he looked at it from a distance of more than ten meters and felt that the texture of these nine dried corpse models was extraordinary, almost the same as the real thing.

The appearance of soaking in bruised poison for a long time and then drying in the desert really makes people's scalp tingle.

Mr. Mage couldn't help but take two steps forward, and just wanted to take a closer look, but Emma grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"Master Mark. Don't you feel that there is a "foul smell" of spiritual power around those corpses?"

The "White Queen's" face was unusually solemn, and her brows seemed to be full of disgust for everything here, and the masters of the mind and spirit realm were extremely sensitive to the perception of such powers, and even had a state of "synaesthesia" that ordinary people did not understand.

At the moment when the coffin opened, it seemed to release the despair and despair that had been sealed for several years

curse

"Well, Madame said. It's strange, I don't seem to feel the power of the "Emperor Weishan", it's strange here!"

He pinched the trick with both hands, and carved the imprint of the secret spell in the air, but the Minghuang Mars that he rubbed up with difficulty was not even as good as the most basic mage apprentice, and he felt the hanging ring from his sleeve, and drew a circle in vain with his right hand, but he did not receive any magic response.

"—Because the townsfolk of Salem saw horrific dried corpses in a clearing in the woods! They were terrified and hysterically searched the town for so-called witches, hehehe."

The female narrator walked slowly towards Emma and the others, and the purple glint in her eyes flashed.

More than 20 tourists seemed to have a puff of black smoke in their ears, Qi Qi's pupils dilated their backs, turned around, and also looked over, and twisted their necks with sluggish steps to faintly surround the two of them in the middle.

"There are many legends about the origin of witches, some say that they are followers of the goddess Frigga who is the queen of the god king Odin, and some say that they are demonic changes from foreign lands, but only we know"

Swish!

A burst of black-purple light flashed, and the gray linen dress on the woman's body suddenly transformed into an indigo robe under the flow of magic halo, and when you look closely, it is very similar to the style on the nine dried corpses.

She curled her mouth, and the look of the rough and silly face just now was full of cunning and ruthlessness, and even her appearance seemed to be much more delicate and enchanting, staring at Emma and screaming:

"—Morgan Le Fay! After the fall of the Atlantean Empire, Her Royal Highness the Sea Princess from the Kingdom of Avalon was the founder of the Witch Society, and they..."

The femininity changed again, waved his hand and pointed to the nine corpses in the coffin behind him, grinned exaggeratedly, and finally said:

「. They're the last members of the Witches' Society, yes! The crooked one in the middle. Oh, it's my mother."

Emma took off her trench coat, shook off her high-tied golden ponytail, and wore a pure white close-fitting combat suit to outline an astonishing arc of her figure, her eyebrows were lightly raised, and she stared at the ghostly woman opposite with interest.

I saw that the woman made a medieval bowing salute, and said sweetly and charmingly:

"Agatha Harkness, I've seen." The White Queen."

Delicate, reasonable, and digging, it is what Panpan wants to present.

Sleep early, good night, everyone!