Harry Potter Morning Light

Why do children swallow needles?

Elizabeth Proctor, 41, is the second wife of John Proctor, 60, who had five children from his first wife and six from Elizabeth, plus the baby she is pregnant with. Well, there are a total of 12 children in total, and she usually reads and teaches maids to read. These all require a quiet environment, but when 11 children gather together, it is inevitable that the older will bully the younger, or one or two will be ignored, and then they will swallow the needle when Elizabeth is not paying attention.

Swallowing needles is not a new thing in the 21st century, but human beings have X-rays to see what's going on inside a child's body. People in the 17th century didn't have this kind of technology. When children swallow needles, the only way to do it is surgery. The conditions at that time were very dangerous.

The children invaded Elizabeth's personal time and disturbed her peace. Of course, she became moody, and Molly was often tortured and cried by the twins. Of course the pastor would publicize the benefits of having more children, but the problem was that they were not the ones to look after the children. Elizabeth was too busy to take care of the food and daily life of so many children.

Not all servants are honest and honest. The number 13 is very unlucky. Originally, Jesus had only 12 disciples, but Judas betrayed him for 30 silver coins, and people chose another one from Jesus’ disciples to replace Judas as an apostle. That's 13 disciples.

Sometimes no matter how good the master is to the servants, they don't appreciate them. On the contrary, they may even let a wolf into the house. Servants and children knew many of the house's secrets, and the way a servant owed his master was to reveal those secrets.

When preaching, the pastor would advocate that the master be sympathetic to the servants, and the servants are willing to give. The actual situation is that the male servant wants to steal the master's gold, silver and jewelry and escape, and the maid is pregnant with the master's child. Listening to other people's family's bad things is a kind of entertainment for the master, but when they listen to it, most of them don't know that their own family's property is also being stolen by the maid, and it becomes entertainment in other people's house.

Massachusetts had gained a reputation for impropriety for decades, London accused the settlers of independence tendencies, and wig-wearing lords instituted onerous trade regulations that irritated merchants.

Queen Mary once ordered the residents of New England to set up a perfect postal system. Some people may die from smallpox in 4 days, but it takes 15 months to spread the news of death to Europe. Before most New Englanders knew it, their new governor, Phipps, had taken office.

Yes, the long-legged Brit did not say that he would appoint a British nobleman as a governor, but he did not say that he would not appoint a governor. Phipps is a native New England pioneer. This strong, rough, muscular, imposing knight was so good at swearing that even old sailors would admire his ability to swear, and he was also a brave soldier. In 1689, he went from London to Boston to deliver the news of the Glorious Revolution. While on board, he was thinking about how to depose the criticized royal governor Andros, but he only discovered this job after he landed six weeks ago It was done, and the Bostonians revolted and drove the Governor out.

In 1690, he led a land and sea expedition to Canada to fight the French. He planned to drive the French out of North America and monopolize Maine's fur trade and fishing grounds.

It was this costly expedition that led Inglis Mather to join him, but when Phipps received the governor's charter in December 1691, he still could not identify the authenticity of the charter, because according to the old Charter, his office was elective, and his lieutenant-governor was the sixty-year-old William Stoughton, who had served New England for twenty years and through four regimes.

Over the past few decades, New England has shown religious tolerance for everyone, as long as a person with a high income can vote, whether he is a church member or not. If the new governor was a Puritan of New England, the province must have disregarded the orders of the crown, while the various counselors of the crown lobbied for those who shared their interests. Phipps was accepted in large part because he did not belong to any party and had no political experience, leaving many immigrants feeling cheated. Merchants would rather return to their former self-government than be ruled by a fool, while Orthodox Christians wanted their old charters restored.

These high-income groups with voting rights are very disgusted with Phipps, because he often violated the law in the past, and he got rid of legal sanctions by accepting bribes. Phipps is a role somewhat similar to the godfather of the mafia. In addition to dealing with complaints, Stanley also had to deal with Indian and French privateers on the frontier.

When Rosen's pamphlets about the supernatural raids in Salem were circulating in Boston, he was busy with urgent national affairs, and all he had done was to delegate to this "delusion" full of fantasies. Several judges were appointed to fill the vacancy left by Andros' men. One of them was Samuel Sewell, who traveled to Salem with 69-year-old Thomas Danforth, an investigator commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor, and several officials as reinforcements.

Because of the arrival of these famous people, the venue of the trial was also transferred from the village chapel to the more refined and bright chapel in the town, where the priest Samuel Paris was demoted to be the clerk of the court, in charge of the first male suspect. This is how man's judgment is carried out.

The defendant was Giles Corey, and John Proctor was on the witness stand, in a witchcraft charge where the logic of the accusation often trumps the alibi. In the philosophy class at Harvard, it was said that metaphysical thinking is also called intellectual thinking, and its core is formal logic, which was first proposed by Aristotle. It consists of the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle and the law of identity. In the same thinking process, the object reflected by a thought or concept is fixed, but the two judgments of a question must be true and false, such as the ship of Theseus, if all the wood on the ship is replaced, then it is still The original ship?

Aristotle believed that although the material of the ship has changed, the design of the ship has not changed, so the ship remains the same ship.

The disadvantage of this kind of intellectual thinking is that it uses some abstract rules of thought to see events from an isolated and static point of view. Thomas Danforth dismissed the charges of witchcraft in 1659, and he also worked at Harvard for decades in management and finance, also worked in the legislature, participated in the anti-Andros coup, and guarded the colony lost of the charter.

With this authority, Judge Samuel Sewell stood aside. The first thing he did after arriving in Salem was to organize a chorus, hoping to restore the dead morale of Salem in this way. It turned out that John Indian was attacked right after the chorus in his sermon.

Danforth first interrogated Sarah Croyce, who yelled "You are a big liar!" in the face of John Indian's accusation, and most of the later confessions came from girls, including Paris's niece , Abigail Williams said that on March 31, the day of public fasting, another group of people ate and drank behind Paris's house, and for those people, what they were eating was "community".

This kind of communion is of course not the Holy Communion received from the priest of the church, but a kind of red bread eaten at the assembly of the devil. Sarah Croyce and Sarah Goode served as deacons, Rosen said before , the stronger the belief, the easier it is to be attacked, so in order to gain more power, 40 witches participated in the blood-drinking ceremony at that time.

At this moment, Sarah Croyce asked for water, and then she passed out in her seat. After she was helped to leave, Elizabeth Proctor, who was pregnant with her advanced age, was put on trial.

Danforth is also the father of twelve children. He knows how to communicate with children. Abigail was confused by his questions and fell into a long trance.

That's when John Indian began to testify that the scantily clad Elizabeth Proctor had strangled him.

This is the characteristic of men accusing witches, and it is always related to exposure and temptation. When Danforth asked John Indian twice if he was sure of her identity, Abigail and Ann Putnam wanted to beat Elizabeth together.

They scratched and scratched in court before being stopped by the sheriff, who began whimpering in pain as Abigail's hand brushed Elizabeth's hood.

Someone checked her hands, and her fingers were burned, as miraculously as the last time she took a charcoal from the fire and threw it around without getting burned.

Then the girls fell to the ground, and they pointed to the chapel beams, where the ghost of Elizabeth Proctor, the wizard's wife, stood, and soon they were warning that John Proctor would throw warmers Joshua Pope floats in the barrel.

At that moment, Pope literally floated off his feet.

"How do you explain that?" Danforth demanded of John Proctor, who was congratulating himself on being the first to accuse Giles Corey of setting him on fire with the Demon Hand during his trial the day before. roof, and now Proctor himself was the subject of trial.

Before he could answer, Abigail pointed to the two older women and said, "Proctor is going to attack you."

The two older women startled, and then really started twisting in pain, when Abigail cried, "Look, the devil will deceive you."

Danforth warned John Proctor "Before the women get hurt, the children can see what you're going to do, you'd better get over it, Satan's just playing with you."

"I... I didn't!" John Proctor explained in vain to people "I love my wife, she has children for me, and she also helps me manage the tavern and 700 acres of farms, why should I hurt her ?”

No one listened to him.

"Trust me," he said to Pope's husband, "if Reverend Parris would allow me a few minutes with that Indian, I'd find the devil in him!"

Still no one believed him, except perhaps one man, Edward Bishop, husband of Bridget Bishop, the first witch to be arrested, who was taking Indian back to Salem Village in the afternoon when John began to convulse. , and even bit Bishop's shoulder.

Bishop whipped him with a tree branch, and John quickly recovered.

A spanking would set those spastics back to normal, but who but John Proctor would beat those effeminate girls?

In addition to Bridget Bishop, Mary Ellen was also the first to be suspected. The presiding judge on the day of her trial was Hassan. She was originally a victim and now an accused witch, just like her master John Proctor, that girl has all the roles for herself.

The pressure of the interrogation made her collapse. She couldn't tell which side she was on. She just cried and apologized, and she didn't know who she was apologizing to. In the end, the pastor and the judge took her down and spent the night in the prison , at the interrogation the next day she put all the blame on John Proctor.

He threatens her to sign a book, and if she doesn't, he won't save her the next time she falls into water or convulses in a fire. If she exposed them, she would be torn to pieces, and Proctor insulted her in private. the first accused wizard in Salem.

During the interrogation of Bridget Bishop, Hassan asked "You deny that you are a witch, so how do you know you are not?"

Bishop didn't respond, Hassan asked again, "You don't know what a witch is, how do you know you're not a witch?"

Bridget was furious, and she cursed, "I'm a witch, I'll let you know my power right away!"

"Are you threatening me?" Hassan asked.

Bishop didn't answer.

"I will not forget what you just said." Hassan looked at the secretary, "Please make sure to record it, do you know that other people have already confessed."

"I don't know," Bishop said wearily.

"Well, you told a big lie," said two men in a rage. "We've told her most of what happened."

Bishop did not say like Martha Corey, "Since you want to hang me, you still find so many reasons", maybe she just wants to go back to the prison and stay alone for a while, away from this threatening, screaming, A "court of reason" for bickering, scolding, rants, insults.

Galileo was also tried by the Inquisition for using Copernican logic.

Scholasticism always uses logic to debate, which is opposite to the combination of modern physical theory and practice. However, the motion of celestial bodies is not something that can be easily tested like "two iron balls landing on the ground at the same time", and human beings are not Atlas. Hold up a globe.

The debate between Ptolemy and Copernicus is like two judgments of a problem, one is true and the other is false. However, no matter how they argue, they are all discoverers, and they are not the ones who designed this system.

A fundamental law of Copernican physics and philosophy is that no observer has a particular position.

The geocentric theory means that the earth does not move, and other planets move around it, including the sun. In fact, the solar system is also moving. The heliocentric theory is also setting up a fixed celestial body, but the sun is not the observer, but the observed celestial body. Galileo thought that mathematicians could cover up the past, but the authority of the church soon found out.

If they don't support the heliocentric theory, it doesn't mean they don't understand. The world is already in chaos because of the Protestants. If the order of the celestial bodies is also in chaos, where else is it not?

Hassan had reason to dislike Burroughs, not just because Burroughs was his ex-brother-in-law, but also because such a heroic pioneer was a priest. Priests are responsible for presenting evidence and interrogating in the Inquisition, not judges graduated from Harvard.

In addition, when the state government withdrew the militia from Casco in 1690, Burroughs was also a witness. head, to absolve oneself of guilt.

There used to be a question, the king, the bishop and the rich man asked the soldiers to kill the other two, and then gave the soldiers everything they wanted, who did the soldiers listen to?

Now there is such a coin in front of the soldier. On the front of it is the emperor with a laurel wreath, and on the back is a cross. It is currently spinning continuously. Who will he think is the last side that faces up?